Mellanakt Quotes & Sayings

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little? — Mark Strand

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in. — Frances Moore Lappe

It's important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I've done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own. — Bryce Dessner

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten. — Muriel Barbery

Consummated science is positively humble. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Books are like confort food without the calories — Elizabeth Berg

And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't shown that they were prepared to vote for a black president, we wouldn't have one today. — Geoffrey Cowan

The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. — Fisher Stevens

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice. — James Vincent McMorrow

Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them. — Medeia Sharif

Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself. — Michael McDowell

And she speculated that the city would be cold, completely of itself, unconscious, that its every move would be transcendent, and that each of its hundred million flashing scenes would strike a moral lesson.
Such a city would extend vision, intensify pity, telescope emotion, and float the heart the way the sea is gently buoyant with great ships. To do this it would have to be a cold instrument. And, despite its beauty, it would have to be cruel. — Mark Helprin

Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled. — Steve Elmendorf

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. — Oscar Wilde

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. — Richard Scaife