Parnassian Poetry Quotes & Sayings

You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.'
'I just applied for a job as a tree,' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding. — Sean Beaudoin

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming. — John C. Maxwell

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back. — Kieran Bew

Awareness = Detect A Problem and Prevent A Tragedy! — Danielle Pierre

The world should stop lying to kids because they've always been brutally honest with us. — Adam Silvera

I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, — Terry Pratchett

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values. — Beeban Kidron

It's strange, but I find myself more disillusioned by a man who has such easily persuaded views than I would be by one whose views were entirely opposite but passionately held. Isn't that quixotic of me? — Elizabeth Hoyt

Fatality makes us invisible. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You see, we find comfort in telling ourselves that the world could not exist without us, that it exists only inasmuch as we ourselves exist, inasmuch as we can represent it to ourselves. Death, infinite space, galaxies, all this is frightening, exactly because it transcends the limits of our perception. — Vladimir Nabokov

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right. — Paul Neilan

If I was a painter, and was to paint the American Eagle, how should I do it? ... I should want to draw it like a Bat, for its short-sightedness; like a Bantam. for its bragging; like a Magpie, for its honesty; like a Peacock, for its vanity; like an Ostrich, for putting its head in the mud, and thinking nobody sees it -' ... 'And like a Phoenix, for its power of springing from the ashes of its faults and vices, and soaring up anew into the sky! — Charles Dickens

She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced. — Holly Black

Teresa [of Avila]'s story dismantles the common belief that all those chosen for sainthood are flawless in personality and character. Indeed, she would want us to consider her contradictions and struggles as integral to her sainthood. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all. — Kristen Ashley