Morakia Quotes & Sayings

Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed. — Dylan Thomas

The billiard table is better than the doctor. — Mark Twain

You may be asking yourself, 'Am I the right type of person to go to this rally?' The fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question, as opposed to, let's say, just jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on a diaper and pointing your car towards D.C.
that means I think you just might be right for it. — Jon Stewart

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you. — David D. Burns

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. — David T. Dellinger

Aristotle, on the other hand, saw poetry as having a positive value: "It is a great thing, indeed, to make proper use of the poetic forms, . . . But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor" (Poetics 1459a); "ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh" (Rhetoric 1410b). — George Lakoff

The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are. — Bob Barr

Arrau performed complete cycles of the Beethoven Sonatas, first in Mexico City in 1938 and later in Buenos Aires, London, and New York. — Victoria A Von Arx

Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light. — Frida Kahlo

You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It was Abraham Lincoln who struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy's sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life. How true a part? Forty-three years later, a mere blink of history's eye, a black American, Barack Obama, was sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office. — Robert A. Caro

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. — Elizabeth Gilbert