Gleckler Llc Quotes & Sayings

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written. — Truman Capote

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese ... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. — Buenaventura Durruti

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant. — Joseph Story

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield. — Lewis Howard Latimer

You know, if it took a normal adult human male nine months to have an orgasm, maybe he'd finally get it. — Michael Bishop

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key. — Yakov Smirnoff

It is difficult to ever see yourself. I don't know how I've developed or grown as a writer. I hope I am continuing to take risks on the page. I hope I am continuing to ask the hard questions of myself. If we are attentive to the world and to those around us, I believe we will be attentive on the page. Writing is about presence. I want to be fully present wherever I am, alive to the pulse just beneath the skin. — Terry Tempest Williams

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span. — Seneca The Younger

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name ... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity ... he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory. — John Quincy Adams

Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?"
Ron: "Throw it away and punch him on the nose. — J.K. Rowling

Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of modern commercial agribusiness as thoroughly embedded. There is nothing we can do that is ultimately subversive - there is no act of gardening that is so profound a rebellion, there is no act of eating that is so potent a blow for food quality and food system sanity - as to take back the corn crop in our own backyards, and grow, breed, eat, and save seed of corn based upon an entirely different set of values. — Carol Deppe

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us — Yasunari Kawabata