Phalens Test Quotes & Sayings

I love that sassy name! Zoozle! — Eileen Granfors

... What more awesome.. than to build a characters with your own sins? — Deyth Banger

I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me. — Paul Putner

PRETENDING TO DROWN

The only regret is that I waited
longer than a breath
to scatter the sun's reflection
with my body.

New stars burst upon the water
when you pulled me in.

On the shore, our clothes
begged us to be good boys again.

Every stick our feet touched
a snapping turtle, every shadow
a water moccasin.

Excuses to swim closer to one another.

I sank into the depths to see you
as the lake saw you: cut in half
by the surface, taut legs kicking,
the rest of you sky.

Suddenly still, a clear view
of what you knew I wanted
to see.

When I resurfaced, slick grin,
knowing glance; you pushed me
back under.

I pretended to drown,
then swallowed you whole. — Saeed Jones

Everything's interesting. You just have to look closely."
"And most people don't. — James Sallis

Now, as they were all looking at the new moth, she, too, went to look at it. It was of a creamy yellow color, like the yellow of the lemon called Buddha's Hand, and it had long black antennae. These quivered as it felt itself impaled. The wide wings fluttered and dark spots upon them showed green and gold for a moment. Then the moth was still. "How quickly they die!" Ch'iuming said suddenly. — Pearl S. Buck

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible — Samuel Johnson

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world. — Julia Butterfly Hill

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Some things don't need to be said. Some things need to be said. There I said it. — Jayce O'Neal

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home
within ourselves — Ann M. Martin