Maria Francesca Kumar Quotes & Sayings

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man. — Barry Hannah

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny. — Lucille Ball

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. — James Laughlin

Always remember one thing in life
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Leaned on the railing of the platform does not have to look up train — Sharma

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer. — Jamaica Kincaid

Oh so what if where related, so what if we're not accepted, love knows no relation, no gender, no boundary. Love is exactly what it is and if no one else can see that, well fuck them — R.J. Seeley

A wild dissolving bliss
Over my frame he breathed, approaching near,
And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness
Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle. — Vernor Vinge

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium ... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness ... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied. — Thomas Jefferson

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. — Anton Chekhov

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself. — Genevieve Gorder

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in! — John Oliver