Le Bonhomme Carnaval Quotes & Sayings

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake. — Carolyn Brown

derelict. my voice cracked and yolk poured out. wind chimes rigid, no breeze, no song. my wings found hidden in your suitcase. pleas for help mistaken for a swan song. i'm stuffing pages from my journal down my throat as kindling. hoping the smoke will get the taste of you out of my mouth. he looks at me from across the room and all i want is to push him against the wall. ravage. ravage. carnage has never been more vogue. is it still art if it doesn't bring you to your knees? lover, let me prey at your altar. let me bare my fangs in praise. don't i look so pretty in a funeral shroud? i keep time with the click of my creaking bones. dance with me under the milky translucence of a world suffocating. how did you find me? i buried myself beneath the cicadas. is a girl trapped in glass still a prize?
let me get under your skin. i want to know what your fears taste like. i want to consume. — Taylor Rhodes

The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face. — Kumi Naidoo

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. — Elliott Colla

My talent is numbers. — David Schweikert

It is possible for love to grow and multiply if you work at it. — Jon Jones

How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more. — Tony Blair

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility. — Emily Dickinson

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. — V.S. Naipaul

we had been each other's home and center for seventeen years. He could die if he wanted to and go off to wherever dead folks go, but I, I would be left without a home. — Maya Angelou

In seeking to teach others,
you teach yourself.
In seeking to help others,
you help yourself.
In seeking to heal others,
you heal yourself.
In seeking to bless others,
you bless yourself. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Nothing should be done for spite's sake. — Winston Churchill