Lifesong Milestones Quotes & Sayings

What can I do with these people? They come to the risk so dutifully. Are delighted by anecdotes that give them Poetry. Are grateful to be told of diagonals that give them Painting. Good people. But stubborn when warned the beast is not domestic. How can I persuade them that the dark, soulful Keats was five feet one? Liked fighting and bear-baiting? I can't explain the red hair. Nor say how you died so full of lust for Fanny Brawne. I will tell them of Semele. — Jack Gilbert

I think every woman goes through a relationship where she is with a guy that is really not right for her. You get lost in it. — Kirsten Dunst

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews. — Mia Kirshner

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. — Lewis Thomas

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. — Mitch Hedberg

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself. — Narissa Doumani

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow. — Margaret Atwood

Sharon had moved to Springdale in November of our senior year. She just appeared out of nowhere in four of my classes ... I couldn't stop staring at her. I had this weird feeling she was going to be important. — Tom Perrotta