Montague Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. — Stephen King

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist. — Douglas Booth

All the beauty that's been lost before wants to find us again — U2

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart. — Amber Valletta

It has long been suspected, but never proved or disproved (and there is a one-million-dollar prize for doing either), that there is a real division between 'hard' and 'easy' problems that reflects the amount of calculating time that needs to be used to solve them. — Anonymous

Within neo-colonial white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the black male body continues to be perceived as an embodiment of bestial, violent, penis-as-weapon hypermasculine assertion. Psychohistories of white racism have always called attention to the tension between the construction of black male body as danger and the underlying eroticization that always then imagines that body as a location for transgressive pleasure. It has taken contemporary commodification of blackness to teach the world that this perceived threat, whether real or symbolic, can be diffused by a process of fetishization that renders the black masculine 'menace' feminine through a process of patriarchal objectification. — Bell Hooks

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. — Baltasar Gracian

Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading. — Nathanael Emmons

I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too. — Judith Martin

We all have neighbors. Greet them on the sidewalk or in the elevator, but try not to peer through their windows. Windows are to look out from, not into. — Alexandra Stoddard

Discouraging words...discourage dreams,
Encouraging words...sprout dreams,
Parents plant the seeds! — Kristin Anderson Cetone

Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs. — Thomas Dolby

Newter, do you know what a devotee is?"

Newter shook his head.

"It is a slang term for someone who is attracted to people with disabilities, because of the disability. I think it is about power, attraction to someone because they are weak somehow. I think it likely that this Laura sees me as weak because of the way I look, the way I may have trouble day to day, and this is compelling to her in a similar way to how a cripple or a blind man might be to a devotee. This does not appeal to me. — Wildbow

Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing bones became arms and hands; perhaps I'm de-evolving. — Gretel Ehrlich

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause! — John C. Maxwell