Persant Quotes & Sayings

When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next. — Andy Carrington

When I write, I don't translate for white readers ... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me. — Toni Morrison

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn. — John Barth

For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind, still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely, grief. — Marcel Proust

Tell them I've gone pig farming in Bolivia. — Leigh Bowery

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within. — Alber Elbaz

All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife. — Arj Barker

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. — Groucho Marx

I have been hated before. But I don't know if I've been loved. I think . . . once . . . I must have been, because I know how to love." "Do — Amy Harmon

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box. — George Harrison

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin] — John Steinbeck