Lexplication Du Quotes & Sayings

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you are drawn to the refined, take up calligraphy or grow a bonsai. — Laurie A. Helgoe

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me. — Damien Chazelle

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote. — Robert Byrd

So you sit and smile,
pretending like it's not
even fazing you,
not touching you at all.

So he looks you
in the eye, trying
to measure you,
find a hint of reaction.

And he says,
Tell me how you feel.

So you can't stand
it one more second,
and you close your eyes,
daring him to kiss you.

So he does, and it's
electric, high voltage,
stun-gun strength desire
jolting sinew and bone. — Ellen Hopkins