Linos North Quotes & Sayings

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. — Marilyn Hacker

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We're finished, God. From now on, you answer your own fucking prayers. — Brent Weeks

Oh, how the pillars of lust can crumble under the weight of stupidity. — Christopher Moore

Thoughtless people are not unusual," observed the Scarecrow, "but I consider them more fortunate than those who have useless or wicked thoughts and do not try to curb them. Your oil can, friend Woodman, is filled with oil, but you only apply the oil to your joints, drop by drop, as you need it, and do not keep spilling it where it will do no good. Thoughts should be restrained in the same way as your oil, and only applied when necessary, and for a good purpose. If used carefully, thoughts are good things to have. — L. Frank Baum

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Tucker, to make anything work, from meat loaf to a marriage, there are two things you have to do. Forgive and continue. — M.E. Kerr

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again. — Bette Davis

Be brave, gladiatrix, he said, And be wary. Bright things beget treachery. Beautiful things breed envy. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate. — Lesley Livingston

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away. — Damon Runyon

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it. — Viktor E. Frankl

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it. — Susanna Hoffs