Mallatts Costumes Quotes & Sayings

It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn't work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It's like plucking a grey hair. — Heather O'Neill

Nobody can teach you how to like something. You can like it, or you can pretend to like it, in order to make someone happy. — Lemony Snicket

When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey — Elizabeth Lowell

[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries. — Kesha Rogers

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley

The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their slave. — Dan Chaon