Komaroff Goodman Quotes & Sayings

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. — Annie Dillard

Political persuasion emerges at the intersection of the mental and the corporal. Traveling — David Eagleman

She was growing accustomed to like shocks, but she could not keep the mounting color back from her cheeks. — Kate Chopin

Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza... — Lola Smirnova

When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world. — Alexander Von Humboldt

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong. — Jane Austen

I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty. — Jennifer Lawrence

Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills. — Richard Dawkins

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead"

When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you'll remember. For you need not so.
Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know
It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?
Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow.
Nor honour. It is easy to be dead.
Say only this, "They are dead." Then add thereto,
"Yet many a better one has died before."
Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you
Perceive one face that you loved heretofore,
It is a spook. None wears the face you knew.
Great death has made all his for evermore. — Charles Hamilton Sorley

All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And — J.K. Rowling