Millay Sonnets Quotes & Sayings

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against. — Vanessa Williams

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner. — Joe Hill

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. — John Burroughs

In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal was made too. All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut. — Victoria Aveyard

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. — Victoria Jackson

The consumption of food was a sacrament of success. A man who carried a great stomach before him was thought to be in his prime. Women went into hospitals to die of burst bladders, collapsed lungs, overtaxed hearts and meningitis of the spine. There was a heavy traffic to the spas and sulphur springs, where the purgative was valued as an inducement to the appetite. America was a great farting country. All this began to change when Taft moved into the White House. His accession to the one mythic office in the American imagination weighed everyone down. His great figure immediately expressed the apotheosis of that style of man. Thereafter fashion would go the other way and only poor people would be stout. — E.L. Doctorow

Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy," I assured her. "Your butt got bigger. — Gordon Korman

The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus. — Ray Oldenburg

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it. — Henry James