Handsomely Masked Quotes & Sayings

Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms. — Rachel Caine

To come right down to it, if I take the kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have, plus the one hundred per cent dedication I have to whatever I believe in-these are ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age. — Anonymous

This is poetry, but it is not delicate and fragile, a placid ocean beneath a Bible vese on an inspirational poster. This poetry had testicles. It's rougher than a rodeo. Which is why the cliffs are crowded with spectators — N.D. Wilson

Good and bad - this is the story of my life. — Martha Reeves

In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people. — Ed O'Neill

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did. — Bill Cosby

It was ugly and precious all at once. — Alice Sebold

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane. — David Sills

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary. — Jen Pollock Michel

There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start looking for what it signifies, and then if you're even more perverse or depraved you set off after signifiers. And you treat the next book like a box contained in the first or containing it. And you annotate and interpret and question, and write a book about the book, and so on and on. Or there's the other way: you see the book as a little non-signifying machine, and the only question is "Does it work, and how does it work?" How does it work for you? If it doesn't work, if nothing comes through, you try another book. This second way of reading's intensive: something comes through or it doesn't. There's nothing to explain, nothing to understand, nothing to interpret. — Gilles Deleuze

The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together. — Masha Tupitsyn

My body yearned for power, but my heart ached for my friends. — Aprille Legacy

I feel like he inherited one of the worst economies than any president has ever, ever inherited. I have met Mr. Obama, President Obama. I supported him in his first campaign, and I feel that he deserves four more years to finish up the job that he started. — Vivica A. Fox

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. — Dennis Farina