Metiniu Quotes & Sayings

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out. — Warren Ellis

We can not improve humanity if everyone is conforming to society's standards. Set your own standard, and find out for yourself. — Mary Sage Nguyen

When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader. — John D'Agata

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. — Boris Becker

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ... — May Sarton

I grew up in Los Angeles, where long drives on packed freeways make everyone a fan of radio and, particularly, of America's national treasure, National Public Radio. — Leila Janah

How she loved you, her bubeleh, her boychik, her darling, but there was something cloying in that love, something theatrical and selfish, and you knew it and, as soon as you were big enough, you kept her at a safe distance. — Siri Hustvedt

People can only be free if they are truly educated. — Jose Marti

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life. — Don DeLillo

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — Margaret Atwood

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now. — Kid Rock

But in fact Dostoevsky found and was capable of perceiving multi-leveledness and contradictoriness not in the spirit, but in the objective social world. In this social world, planes were not stages but opposing camps, and the contradictory relationships among them were not the rising or descending course of an individual personality, but the condition of society. The multi-leveledness and contradictoriness of social reality was present as an objective fact of the epoch. The — Mikhail Bakhtin