Keckley Ball Quotes & Sayings

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle? — Alan Shepard

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy. — J.M. Barrie

It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die. — Carol Shields

It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of my cape is soaking in a puddle of something I don't want to guess about. I'm crouched behind a kicked-in aluminum trash can. It stinks of rotted meat and drunkard's piss - and I feel right at home. (from Nothing to Lose) — Steve Vernon

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff. — Stephen Malkmus

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. — Alain De Botton

Samuel Beckett wrote, "Fail, fail again. Fail better. — Keith Ferrazzi

Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last but not least, six or seven eager and receptive youths seated at one's feet. — Paul Russell