Hirouter Quotes & Sayings

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. — C. K. Williams

We know you are going to be enthralled by the mystery of sexuality, which is hardly surprising since it is the energy of life itself. We know it will have the power to take you over for it's own purposes, and we know you won't always be able to resist it. Try at least to think about its possible consequences. Recognise that sex has the potential to hurt and devastate, as well as the capacity to thrill. Understand that it will get all tied up with your need for consolation and acceptance. And never forget the sheer fucking insanity of it all. — Richard Holloway

You do run and scream and cry and work yourself up into hysterics, and then you get back to the hotel at the end of the day, and you feel really off and really strange. And that's because rationally, even though you know everything is OK, you have put yourself through this traumatizing experience, and your body is still going. — Alexandra Daddario

Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards. — Jonathan Kingdon

Susan had never before come across the idea that you could rise in Society by, as it were, gaining marks, especially since such noblemen as she'd met in her father's house had used neither serviette nor napkin but a state of mind, which was Drop it on the floor, the dogs'll eat it. — Terry Pratchett

Men who share the same rooms, soldiers or prisoners, develop a strange alliance as if, having cast off their armor with their clothing, they fraternized every evening, over and above their differences, in the ancient community of dream and fatigue. — Albert Camus

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated. — Luanne Rice

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy. — Sara Teasdale

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. — H.G.Wells

I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting. — Kip Moore

If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you? — Joni Eareckson Tada

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community. — Sam Walton