Padavica Quotes & Sayings

Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation. — Lee Zeldin

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love. — George Saunders

Once you start enjoying your life, the rest is easy. — Roland Orzabal

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure. — Bodhidharma

I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. — Lydia Davis

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams

you're the fly on the wall hearing all, seeing all

ears of a wall hearing all the secrets

perhaps you're the vines creeping over

the old abandoned mansion walls

dusty, soulless and dead

bringing a certain curious life to rubble

and I think you're the jewel-eyed gecko

sneaking around the warm summer walls

between jasmine and olive branches

sticky pad toes, clinging to the walls

peeking in at lonely summer spicy love-making

through silk curtains from the bright orient

breathing in incense and tasting decadence

climbing the sharply barbed walls

the smooth cemented white-washed walls

because walls breathe too — Moonshine Noire

Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were going - and moved on. — Heather King

When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me. — Dani Shapiro

It's kind of like wearing a baseball cup. I want to call it the Mangina." "That's a good name for it ... Where are the other vaginas you made?" Chandler brought over to me a plastic bag and dumped out all the failed vaginas on to his drafting table. — Jonathan Ames