Grapy Sherwin Williams Quotes & Sayings

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy. — Ferdinand Hodler

You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great. — Rainer Maria Rilke

This for That

What will I have for breakfast?
I wish I had some plums
like the ones in Williams's poem.
He apologized to his wife
for eating them
but what he did not
do was apologize to those
who would read his poem
and also not be able to eat them.
That is why I like his poem
when I am not hungry.
Right now I do not like him
or his poem. This is just
to say that.

A kinesthesia for me! It is definitely the sort of poem that makes me go to the kitchen to check if a have some plumes. I really enjoy some of Padgett's poems! — Ron Padgett

My job is to throw passes and be a leader. — Brett Favre

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. — Eugene Jarecki

Girl, you have a knack for drawing trouble, Billy says, clapping an affectionate hand on my shoulder. — Cynthia Hand

Anything that comes from the north is bad news. — Bernard Cornwell

All other societies die finally and with dignity. We die daily. We are always being born again with almost indecent obstetrics. — G.K. Chesterton

Compulsion was a key element in Leningrad's survival, as in that of Stalin's nation. If the city's inhabitants had been offered an exchange of surrender for food in February 1942, they assuredly would have given — Max Hastings

My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works. — John Travolta

Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for? — Caroline Knapp

The right shoe left, knowing that the left shoe was right. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt