Lissom Quotes & Sayings

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble. — Malvina Hoffman

Ronan looked angry, but he was in the mood where he was going to look angry no matter what. "I don't know what I want. I don't know what the hell I am."
He got into the Camaro.
"You promised me," Gansey said through the open car door.
Ronan didn't look up."I know what I did, Gansey."
"Don't forget. — Maggie Stiefvater

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat — Eldridge Cleaver

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children. — Timothy Carey

You must find your own gift, the activity you are fond of and the activity you were created for — Sunday Adelaja

The last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced,
and lest this be taken for wry sorrow,
drown the spider in wine.
you are much more than simply dead:
I am a dish for your ashes,
I am a fist for your vanished air.
the most terrible thing about life
is finding it gone. — Charles Bukowski

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians. — Athenagoras I Of Constantinople

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry. — Richard Wilbur

Life goes on. people pass along. nothing stays the same. the lord gives and the lord takes away. thats the way he is ... ! — Terrence Malick

I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet. — Michael Franti

She did not look like an orphan, said the wife of the Oriel don, subsequently, on the way home. The criticism was a just one ... Tall and lissom, she was sheathed from the bosom downwards in flamingo silk, and she was liberally festooned with emeralds. Her dark hair was not even strained back from her forehead and behind her ears, as an orphan's should be. Parted somewhere at the side, it fell in an avalanche of curls upon one eyebrow. From her right ear drooped heavily a black pearl, from her left a pink; and their difference gave an odd, bewildering witchery to the little face between. — Max Beerbohm

I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids. — William Golding