Hisaya Taira Quotes & Sayings

Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth. — Walter Pater

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. — William, Saroyan

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. — Margaret Atwood

When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong. — Steve Wozniak

But Curtis had come to the table with something they'd never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and out-lived in the modern age: a kind of fundamental righteousness that only the fundamental possessed. Unfettered by doubt, it achieved the appearance of moral intelligence and a resolute conscience. The terrible thing was how small it made you feel, how weaponless. How could you fight righteous rage if the only arms you bore were logic and sanity? — Dennis Lehane

But on the other hand, there is no doubt that honeybees are a non-native species. It also seems to me common sense that flowers can produce only so much nectar, and that there can therefore be only so many bees in a particular habitat. Something has to give, and that thing is likely to be the local flower-visiting insects. — Dave Goulson

Every cloud has a silver lining because God is the one who paints them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us - to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is. — Andrew Kaufman

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people. — Lawrence Weiner

None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are properly used they remind us that the act of reading is an act of confidence, and almost of conspiracy, between one human being and another. That conspiracy can get nowhere, and that confidence can be betrayed. But if all goes well the reader may put down the book at the end and say what the author - and this author is no exception - most wants to hear:'I learned a lot from your book, but what is more to the point is I had a very good time. — John Russell

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings. — Heber J. Grant

Bent down and plucked the fae's sword free of the fleshy mess that had once been his hand. Mental note: Don't mess with the spiders. — Pippa DaCosta

Can I do anything for you? Bake you cookies? Walk your dogs? Throw snowballs? Just generally be a distraction? — Dee Henderson