Introduces To The Mix Quotes & Sayings

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god. — Daniel Dennett

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names. — Thomas Merton

Let his herald your end,and begone with the thundder clap. — Masashi Kishimoto

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. — Ken Follett

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added. — Helen Vendler

We'll be out of business in a few years. We got savings put aside for the lean years, but the lean years have been here for a long while, and every year they just get leaner. Horus is crazy, really bugfuck crazy, spends all his time as a hawk, eats roadkill, what kind of a life is that? — Neil Gaiman

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag. — Chet Raymo

Sometimes life isn't what you think it should be or want it to be. Sometimes life is just life and it goes on even without you. The key is to make the most out of it while you can. — Jean Williams

Lions and tigers and pissed-off girls, oh my. — Katie Bayerl

Worship ... is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth. — J. B. Torrance

As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: - What is the little one's name? - His name is Jimi Hendrix. - Hooray, I wake from yesterday! - Inshallah! he called out. — Patti Smith

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later. — J. D. McClatchy