Parachevement Quotes & Sayings

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. — Margaret Atwood

Success is dependent on effort. — Sophocles

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. — Harry Truman

My poem is called 'The Grand Inquisitor' - an absurd thing, but I want you to hear it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists. — Sarah Palin

There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier. — Gary Janetti

I feel like I'm already a winner. I've made so many dreams come true. I'm here. Whether you walk away with a statue [ Emmy]or not, you shouldn't make it about it that necessarily. Everyone who's here in this house tonight is a winner. — Taraji P. Henson

I was the worst, most sickly kid of all
30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem. — Jack LaLanne

Don't drink fluoridated water ... Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis. — Charles Bernhard Heyd

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. — Todd Haynes

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith. — Eleanor Catton

A sin is two sins when it is defended. — Henry Smith

It's like fiction - the fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. You go through heavy emotional responses to these stories, and wrestling is a similar thing - but it's happening in real space. — John Darnielle

I believe in one that all people are dreaming. This now, past and future is just a long dream, some people wake up by dieing, other by suicide everything is about a choice. But the people which are dead in our world, there aren't dead in the other they are still alive and watching us and they are smiling at us and they want we to make our choice. To think then to do it! — Deyth Banger

Either I can be like some traveler of the olden days, who was faced with a stupendous spectacle, all, or almost all, of which eluded him, or worse still, filled him with scorn and disgust; or I can be a modern traveler, chasing after the vestiges of a vanished reality ... A few hundred years hence, in this same place another traveler, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see. — Claude Levi-Strauss