Parveen Shakir Poetry Quotes & Sayings

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sometimes, I have to look twice at you just to see if you're actually real. That much beauty is dangerous. — Skyla Madi

That's the thing about the frame we use to look at the world. It is actually stronger than life experience because it is mindful, positioned, owned, established, and deeply held. Personal experience can seem fickle. Worldview (the end result of the critical perspective we choose) is always intimate and claimed. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs. — Olivia Wilde

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues. — Tim Vine

I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed. — Russell E. Train

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation. — John C. Maxwell

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up. — Jim Clyburn

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive. — Ray Bradbury

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you. — Laura Furman

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be. — Chinua Achebe

I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites. — Planningtorock