Maya Angelous Quotes & Sayings

When I began my career as a writer I thought it would be fun to put my imagination to the page. Now I am finding out that my imagination is able to fill in those pesky holes called details all on its own, and then neglecting to tell me how it did it. — Jonathan Bender

He chuckles. "Evolution." He leans over as if telling me a secret. "I'll have you know that I've been this perfect since the beginning of time." He is so close that his breath caresses my ear. — Susan Ee

There are enough reasons to live your life happily rather than sacrificing it for a lie. — M.F. Moonzajer

What are you looking at? — Jesse Stone

Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out because he's not really a drinker. They think he might have picked up some type of infection while wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights. — Bill Maher

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton

They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
That now are wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themself in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
Busily seeking with a continual change. — Thomas Wyatt

I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting. — Marina Keegan

I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry. — Annie E. Clark

When your soul does not get much warmer nor any lighter, when It is not a place for faint hearted ... . then relief is on its way. — Sameh Elsayed

Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling. — Dane Reynolds

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. — Philip James Bailey

It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world. — Deborah Eisenberg

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime. — Edith Wharton

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise. — Paolo Bacigalupi