Li Villas Quotes & Sayings

The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory. — T. S. Eliot

Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time. — Chauncey Billups

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time. — Paul Auster

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. — Mark Twain

Deal with my weird; I'm dealing with yours. — Temple West

The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it. — Michael Pare

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving. — Stevie Jackson

Memorial Day weekend is the time we drink up all the booze and eat up all the grub that the soldiers didn't get to. It's important. — Karl Welzein

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men. — Tom Brokaw