Non Transparent Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Not anyone who says "I'm going to be
careful and smart in the matters of love,"
who says, "I'm going to choose slowly,"
but only those lovers who didn't choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible
and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable--
only those know what I'm talking about
in this talking about love. — Mary Oliver

All that I was, but for reflections in a cracked mirror, has been lost for a long, long time. — Greg Bear

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. — James Wolcott

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. — Linda Chavez

Decadence begins when men no longer find within themselves a reason to relate their lives to that of others and not when material resources run short. — Anonymous

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest! — Leighton Meester

We may say with some confidence that the most apparently beneficent products of science and industry should be held in suspicion if they are costly to consumers or bring power to governments or profits to corporations. There — Wendell Berry

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. — Tammy Bruce

A person who Sleeps more, Slips More. — Lalit Sharma

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape! — David Suzuki

This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head. — Phyllis Diller

There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation. — Wesley Eisold

The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit. — Paul Caponigro

You sweet ... beautiful ... lunatic, he heard himself mutter. — Lisa Kleypas

I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contemporary culture. Nobody gets to have it all ... You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want' (175). — Pam Houston