Monte Burns Quotes & Sayings

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp
brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure. — Anne Carson

Posterity will jump to conclusions: that is its nature. — Julian Barnes

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. — Frances Bean Cobain

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station. — Martha Gellhorn

I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain. — Cesar Aira

There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence. — Michael Chabon

And now I know it's hard when you don't know what to think — Tomas Kalnoky

The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn't looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged.
"Is very good. — A.S. Peterson

He doesn't anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi)
Yes, I'm more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain? — Harrison Ford

Our main problem is deciding how to spend this one and only precious life that we have been gifted...
Shall we spend it trying to look good - trying to create the illusion of being better, stronger or smarter than others, or of having power and control over people and life's circumstances?
Or shall we let go and humble ourselves - so we can truly taste life, enjoy it, share it, own it and fully appreciate it?
Its a very personal choice. Let's choose wisely! — Jose N. Harris