Janese Crawford Quotes & Sayings

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it. — Michel Houellebecq

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. — Ian Fleming

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site - stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct. — Jane Smiley

I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same. — Tom Peters

Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis. — Dorothy L. Sayers

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. — Sherman Alexie

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder. — Joseph Cornell

Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable. — Gail Jones

Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam. — Golshifteh Farahani

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski

We look everywhere for happiness. In the end, we find it where we least expect. — Deborah Truscott

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn. — Jami Attenberg

There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine, are a surprise. They are warm, light as breath, firm as the give of a peach against my mouth. A scent like scorched cinnamon hangs in the air, but I'm not falling into any vision. It's his smell in me. A smell that makes my stomach drop through my feet. A smell that pushes all thought out of my head and replaces it with an overpowering hunger for more. — Libba Bray

I talk to people who go to rehab, and they get this AA book that they've got to read everyday - really thick book. They go through all these 12 steps and do all this and that. It's crazy how everybody can sit and talk about rehab but if I come to say Christ was my rehab, it's not cool to say that ... For me that's my rehab. That's what happened with me and it's an amazing and powerful thing. — Reginald Arvizu

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. — Paul Laurence Dunbar