Grcess Quotes & Sayings

The penalizing of ability for being ability, the penalizing of success for being success, and the sacrifice of productive genius to the demands of envious mediocrity. — Ayn Rand

Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms - Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well. — Gary Snyder

Now his hopes were dashed to shit, because she wasn't going to implicate Trigga in Kenyon's murder. She couldn't. — Leo Sullivan

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. — Douglas Brinkley

No matter how hard life gets, there's always goodness right around the corner. All you have to do is look for it. — Amy Matayo

That's right boys, I made twins. Two babies, one shot, he said with his chest puffed out. — Toni Aleo

He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home. — Stephen King

The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. — John Green

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. — Don Kardong

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive. — Anita Hill

I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage. — George Mason

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. — Chris Ware