Oubliettes In Art Quotes & Sayings

[A] "poem" is understood as [something] referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures — Ben Lerner

I don't think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn't occur to most people that everything is designed
that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that's a nice ambition. — Bill Moggridge

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start. — Ronald Reagan

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities. — Maria Montessori

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories. — Anna Deavere Smith

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people. — Sylvia Pankhurst

We're going to live tomorrow, and for long after. We'll have years and years to fight about everything you want to fight about."
He made it sound like it was a desirable thing.
"I hope so," Jane said. "I've been making a list."
"I don't doubt it. What shall we fight about first? — Cynthia Hand

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't. — Steven D. Levitt

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus. — Rajneesh

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more. — Vinny Guadagnino

Noah's eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the intimacy of us, eyes locked amid the scraping of twenty graphite pencils on paper.
I shaded his face out of nothingness. I smudged the slope of his neck and darkened his delinquent mouth, while the lights accented the right angle of his jaw against the cloudy sky outside. I did not hear the bell. I did not hear the other students rise and leave the room. I did not even notice that Noah no longer sat at the stool. — Michelle Hodkin

i love reading book — Jackie Chan

I fight because it allows me to face my fears head on, and conquer those fears one by one. — Michelle Waterson

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. — George Santayana

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. — Mary Oliver