Imagist Movement Quotes & Sayings

I used to call people, then I got into e-mailing, then texting, and now I just ignore everyone. — Ayn Rand

[Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel ... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it. — Edmund Morris

Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22) — Wiley Drake

There was a young man who said "God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there's no one about in the quad."

Reply:
"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God. — Ronald Knox

It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate. — Steven Pinker

I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean. — Alice Walker

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world. — Chris Hemsworth

Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake. — Huston Smith

others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit, — James D. Tabor

Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God — Stormie O'martian

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile. — Roderick Murchison

Is a lie still a lie
if you say it pretty? — Fortesa Latifi

There is a seed of greatness in all of us but we need one another to bring forth these rivers of life out of our bellies. — Euginia Herlihy

One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger. — Eli Siegel

The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century. — Ralph Nader