Lhude Columns Quotes & Sayings

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue. — Todd Park

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man. — Alfred Hitchcock

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away. — Aaron Copland

Teach me to be resigned to thy will, to delight in thy law, to have no will but thine, to believe that everything thou doest is for my good.
[pg. 132, Divine Promises] — Arthur Bennett

He starts with the character's eyes and by the time he moves to her hair, a mess of blonde curls, I realize he's drawing me. Superheroes. You can finally have those super powers you want. — Kasie West

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. — Alain De Botton

All the best firsts should be experienced at three a.m. — Heather Lyons

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. — Aeschylus

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no? — Adam Brody

He wanted his enemies proud and strong, so that he could cast them further down in his vengeance. — Conn Iggulden

There is nothing in there that doesn't deserve to get burned — Betsy Schow

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind. — R.S. Thomas

Poetry
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... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise — Marianne Moore