Menyeleksi Gambar Quotes & Sayings

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. QUEEN ELIZABETH 1, 1588 — Anonymous

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents. — Padgett Powell

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said. — Jane Hirshfield

I know it's not a lot of comfort right now, but the bad reminds you just how good everything else is. You've got to have both. — Kit Rocha

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Bertrand Russell

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent. — Marcus Aurelius

But if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all. — Jodi Picoult

I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock. — Inara George

You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma. — Luke Wilson

They have been together for so many years that they are no longer like two people but one strange four-legged creature. For her, so much of their marriage is about talk: she likes to talk, he likes to listen. Without him, she has no one to whom she can address her remarks, her observations, her running commentary about life in general. — Maggie O'Farrell

We like to blame life for the problems we make,
We threaten to change, but it's always a fake;
We bitch and moan that everything's wrong,
Then we get right back to getting along. — Kim Stanley Robinson