Macheath Threepenny Quotes & Sayings

You've got the words to change a nation
but you're biting your tongue — Emeli Sande

That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience. — Matthew Zapruder

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with. — Stephan Pastis

Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos. — David G. Simons

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes. — George Eliot

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that. — Dave Thomas

Ah, that's your problem," Riley said, relieved to be on familiar ground. "You've got a copy of Paradise Lost
in your house. Biblios hate Milton. Same with Dante, C.S. Lewis and most holy books. They'll go after those every time. — Jana Oliver

Creativity needs time. We're all dying. Fuck stagnation. High-five creation. — Chuck Wendig

I incorporate different styles that work for me. I could easily change my style depends on my opponent. — Tomoki Kameda

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security. — John F. Kennedy

I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think. — Jay Kristoff

I don't know if he'll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself. — Gail McHugh

Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears. — Saigyo