Mataele Finau Quotes & Sayings

Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of light ...
I just want to be pure. — Jim Carroll

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. — Shannon L. Alder

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody. — Julia Child

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation. — Paul Johnson

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. — Nadine Gordimer

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe. — Franz Kafka

Eyes are zeroed in on mine, their lost, lonely gaze causing my heart to pang in response as I try to take a breath. — Gail McHugh

From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom. — Ransom Riggs

I snorted. "They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?" "Yeah." "You can stay at home and hide if you want - and wind up like Miss Havisham," I said. "Watching life through a window and obsessed with how things might have been." "Dear God," she said. "You've just made Dickens relevant to my life." "Weird, right?" I asked her, nodding. — Jim Butcher

Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's about money: Healthcare is America's largest industry by far, employing a sixth of the country's workforce. — Steven Brill

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film. — Barbara Kruger

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. — Alexis De Tocqueville