Pasciak Family Quotes & Sayings

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say. — Robert Graves

My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why. — Charlie Tahan

When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits. — Taylor Hicks

You went through hell and lived. That leaves marks — Simon Holt

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. — Paul Davies

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity ... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit. — Paulo Freire

Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love — Anton Szandor LaVey

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions. — Billy Collins

Going to straight-up fucking murder you, and drink a latte out of your skull." "You forgot to mention poison," I said, taking — Seanan McGuire

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.' — Bono

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. — Jane Austen

Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by.
I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied.
And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon."
Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?"
The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons. — P.L. Travers

I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.' — Danielle Fotopoulos

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand. — Michael Bassey Johnson