Oulipo Poem Quotes & Sayings

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down ... tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens ... makes her a home. — Joss Whedon

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do. — Will Ferrell

As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco. — Michael Moss

Grandmama's idea of a joke. — Maddie Cochere

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present. — Deepak Chopra

It may be that our role on this planet
is not to worship God
but to create him. — Arthur C. Clarke

In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable. — Melanie Lynskey

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them. — Alexander Pope