Kamene Ploce Quotes & Sayings

A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept. — Ellen Hopkins

Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others. — Amish Tripathi

Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometimes you just can't bear another gear or pair of wings or vampire teeth. You go on a fast, and sometimes you come back, and sometimes you don't. — Catherynne M Valente

Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding. — Iris Origo

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic. — Milan Kundera

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn. — Yvonne De Carlo

You'll need someone's help to get it. If people like you, they will be disposed to give you their time and their efforts. And the better the quality of rapport you have with them, the higher the level of their cooperation. — Nicholas Boothman

So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life - of so many more than we think - can never be explained at all. — Graham Swift

Often, simply knowing the answer is the largest hurdle to overcome when formulating a proof. — Clifford A. Pickover

You can't tug on a plant to make it grow. — Edmund Sprunger

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. — Jane Smiley