Mioara Velicu Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. — Allen Ginsberg

If she's not giving you shit, she doesn't think you're worth her time, — Julia Kent

Most of philosophy is institutionalized mansplaining. — Deanna Havas

I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did. — Sam Andrew

I'm learning so many different ways to be quiet. There's how I stand in the lawn, that's one way. There's also how I stand in the field across from the street, that's another way because I'm farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There's how I don't answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I'm not home when people knock. There's daytime silent where I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things. There's shower silent and bath silent and California silent and Kentucky silent and car silent and then there's the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can't be quiet anymore. That's how this machine works. — Ada Limon

Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others. — Cameron Dokey

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better. — Chuck Palahniuk

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3. — King Tuff

In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I have to go home and get a few things done. If I don't get out the Pledge soon, the dust bunnies are going to be leaving tracks on my furniture ... — Carla Foft