Gratuitous Def Quotes & Sayings

There is a sight all hearts beguiling
A youthful mother to her infant smiling,
Who with spread arms and dancing feet,
A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet. — Joanna Baillie

But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct. — Suzanne Collins

An orange on the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of night
Warmth of my life — Jacques Prevert

The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one. — Foundation For Inner Peace

When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict. — Margaret Atwood

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up. — Ron Ziegler

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. — John Lydon

Be accurate, be balanced, and be careful (the ABCs) when selecting a future growth rate. — Stig Brodersen

Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings. — Alice Hoffman

What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. — Victor Hugo

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

Just as Morse code provides a good introduction to the nature of codes, the telegraph provides a good introduction to the hardware of the computer. — Charles Petzold

Art is not to throw light but to be light... — Kenneth Patchen