Perchant Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart ... badoom, badoom, badoom. — Mel Brooks

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. — Louise Bogan

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. — Stephen King

We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred. — Frederick Lenz

I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving. — Gautama Buddha

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment. — Pete McCloskey

Tom's language is our weather, the sky we live under ..... — Marion Coutts

As she stood there looking about, that radio sound resolved into the bluff baritone of Burl Ives, encouraging all the world to have a holly jolly Christmas, and never mind it was the third week of March. The voice was coming from the attached garage, a dingy building with a single roll-up door and four square windows looking into it, milky with filth. — Joe Hill

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play? — Anna Cora Mowatt

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent. — Hamza Yusuf

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders. — Jesmyn Ward