Oulipo Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Mack once told me that he used to speak his mind more freely in his younger years, but he admitted that most of such talk was a survival mechanism to cover his hurts; he often ended up spewing his pain on everyone around him. He says that he had a way of pointing out people's faults and humiliating them while maintaining his own sense of false power and control. Not too endearing. — Wm. Paul Young

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership. — Seth

No situation is beyond the strength within. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect. — Shah Rukh Khan

The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life. — Leona Lewis

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world. — Rob Sheffield

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job. — David Horsey

If you deny yourself your own passion, your own path, your own longing, your own drama, your own life force, your own truth - then you might be tempted to live vicariously through those who allow themselves theirs. Your creative energy has got to go somewhere, even if it is projected onto others. You're tempted to live a life of fantasy if you deny yourself a life of truth. — Marianne Williamson

I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind. — Elizabeth Scott

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers. — Corin Nemec

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake. — Amartya Sen

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause — David Cook

For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both. — George R R Martin

She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would stroke her head and rub her forehead. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt's entire life was dedicated to two things: (one) making it better for all people, people in trouble and in need, like her family. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A] — Michel De Montaigne