Minazal Quotes & Sayings

She would be very much annoyed," he said to himself, "if she should see that ... she would cough most dreadfully, and she would pretend that she was dying, to avoid being laughed at. And I should be obliged to pretend that I was nursing her back to life
for if I did not do that, to humble myself also, she would really allow herself to die ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both ... — Robert Frost

I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because you can write them. You can stay home, stay in a little room, and imagine all these worlds. And I wanted to do that. Why did I want to do that, I'm not sure if I can tell. — Vito Acconci

Worship is not love. — Donald Hall

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman
a married man needs only an excuse. — Helen Rowland

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. — Michael Jordan

My weight is something that people seem to talk about a lot. — Nicole Trunfio

She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door. — Lisa McMann

Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect. — Jacques Barzun

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do. — Sam Hamill