Grandissimo Quotes & Sayings

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, 'the aesthetic event'. — Jorge Luis Borges

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role. — Paul Weyrich

Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them. — Jeff Olson

Theirs is the present who can praise the past. — William Shenstone

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. — Kenneth Koch

Holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go. — Ally Condie

Man is an accident who yearns for necessity — Nigel Hems

Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site where the plane went down. — Chris Crutcher

But it is the same thing we are all seeing,
Our world. Go after it,
Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick.
Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again,
Into the chamber behind the thought — John Ashbery

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language. — Mikhail Tal

The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas. — Tom Robbins