Penpro Quotes & Sayings

Failing is an important part of growing. — Dana L. Ayers

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility. — Nelson Mandela

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. — Henry David Thoreau

With our writings, we can right the world. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming. — Sylvia Plath

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there. — A.J. Darkholme

If I open up, it gets me, Dad. It gets me, and I don't know if I'm strong enough to stand it. — A.J.J. Bourque

Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses space, so as to drain off its exteriority. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. — Katherine Dunham

To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily. — Tony Dovale

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. — Gilbert Murray

The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions. The major figure here is Grover Smith, who in the midfifties published an encyclopedic study of Eliot's sources. 3 The mere existence of Smith's scholarly tome changed the shape of close readings of Eliot. The poet's allusions and sources moved to the foreground of concern, and although most readers of Eliot's poetry and plays benefited from Smith's work, others found themselves frustrated by the weight of the intellectual backgrounds. — Jewel Spears Brooker