Marneffe Code Quotes & Sayings

I still don't know how to work out a poem.
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept the mystery. — John Keats

Haphephobia. The fear of being touched that often presented itself after a traumatic event. Touch from another human being often felt like fire burning the sufferer's skin. — Tessa Bailey

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation. — Mahatma Gandhi

with facts, fear grows dim — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling. — Macaulay Culkin

Have you ever had the experience of finding in a book some vague idea that's already occurred to you, some obscure image that comes back to you from the depths of your mind, or a perfect expression of your most subtle feelings? — Gustave Flaubert

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well. — Victoria Beckham

If looks could kill, she'd be a dead woman. — Leslie Meier

The bottom line of Hollywood is money. — Victoria Jackson

It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him. — Gwenn Wright

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win — Bill Vaughan

Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat. — Tom Douglas