May Ayim Quotes & Sayings

You'd be surprised. Look, most Republicans are decent men who simply have a view of the world that is different from ours. But there is a hard core of fucking nutcases. — Ken Follett

crayon. Age had given his face a softly — Sue Grafton

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives. — Charles Simic

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier. — Beau Willimon

The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you. — Rene Denfeld

Uh-huh and since when did Decebel's man boobs begin producing milk? Jacque asked dryly. — Quinn Loftis

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. — John Avlon

In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others children for fear of what they'd hear, one knew that they were speaking-or not speaking, keeping their unhappy silence-on behalf of stricken motherhood everywhere in the country. — Diana Trilling

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet. — Terence Young

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions. — Arthur M. Wellington

ADULTERATION (ADULTERA'TION) n.s.[from adulterate.]1. The act of adulterating or corrupting by foreign mixture; contamination. To make the compound pass for the rich metal simple, is an adulteration, or counterfeiting: but if it be done avowedly, and without disguising, it may be a great saving of the richer metal.Bacon'sNatural History,No 798.2. The state of being adulterated, or contaminated. — Samuel Johnson

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

....when it comes to finding out about new jobs - or, for that matter, new information, or new ideas - "weak ties" are always more important than strong ties. — Mark Granovetter

virus writers lack the basic social and moral values and the "well-formed consciousness" that are the hallmarks of civilized modern societies. — Peter H. Gregory

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. — Walt Whitman