Learsi Jacket Quotes & Sayings

Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder. — Rae Armantrout

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. — Richard H. Davis

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart. — Kim Edwards

Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated. — George Will

Gus slowed in the darkened underground tunnel and started to unlock — Guillermo Del Toro

I was a child of wealth, expected to do nothing but everything. — Alessandra Torre

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand. — Sigrid Undset

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities. — Thomas Carlyle

Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom. — Maxwell Perkins

My idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond. — Dick Powell

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence. — Aristotle.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends. — Ronnie Montrose

But you are my queen. No one but you. And I like seeing you wear it. Because as long as you do, I know you still love me. And given our history of miscommunication, physical cues are helpful. — Soman Chainani