Lelapa Quotes & Sayings

This poetry is utilitarian - heavy-duty, industrial strength poetry. It is meant to be read aloud and, even better, memorized and recited. It is best used in the natural world where there are starlit skies, the warmth of blazing fires, and sounds and sights of open expanse. This book is meant to be carried with you in the glove box of a pickup truck, the back pocket of a worn pair of pants, even a saddlebag. It is not made to take up space on a library shelf, squeezed between other unread volumes. Take it along; you never know when the opportunity will be just right. Nothing pleases more than to see copies of the book twice as thick as the original from continued page turning, with turned-down corners marking favorite poems, or the whole shape curved to match the owner's posterior. — Hal Cannon

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' — Robert De Niro

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. — Aly Khan

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. — M.H. Abrams

The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety; — Hanif Kureishi

Honor," she said, "is the coin that stays in your pocket when all your silver has been spent. — Craig Schaefer

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not ... I was a really cynical child. — Nikki Reed

The gatekeepers must change. — Prince

Militant
Let all who will
Eat quietly the bread of shame.
I cannot,
Without complaining loud and long,
Tasting its bitterness in my throat
And feeling to my very soul
It's wrong.
For honest work
You proffer me poor pay,
For honest dreams
Your spit is in my face,
And so my fist is clenched
Today
To strike your face. — Langston Hughes

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert. — Charles Caleb Colton

I'm always more attracted to the unattractive. — Amy Sedaris

Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is. — Jack Lemmon

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived. — Sandra Day O'Connor

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now. — Gillian Anderson