Kernohans Phenomenon Quotes & Sayings

Even as I hold you
I think of you as someone gone
far, far away. Your eyes the color
of pennies in a bowl of dark honey
bringing sweet light to someone else
your black hair slipping through my fingers
is the flash of your head going
around a corner
your smile, breaking before me,
the flippant last turn
of a revolving door,
emptying you out, changed,
away from me.
Even as I hold you
I am letting go. — Alice Walker

Has anyone ever told you that you use twenty words when five will do? — L. H. Cosway

Loser gives the winner a blowjob," he said just as I swung. — Sarina Bowen

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. — William Makepeace Thackeray

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do. — Ash Gray

I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience. — Kate Voegele

Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in
the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us. — Eben Alexander

So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story. — Terry Pratchett

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. — William James

To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings. — Quentin Crisp

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them. — William Jennings Bryan

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — G.K. Chesterton

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns. — George Orwell