Placette Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone — John Ciardi

Most people spend so much time fearing the things that are never going to happen or can't be controlled that they have no energy to deal with the few things they can actually handle. — Andy Andrews

She was incurably dishonest. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible. — Jane Austen

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship. — John Cheever

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie. — Henry James

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. — Sarah Sundin

The winter oak ... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre ... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both ... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar , as well as willow , linden , and the agnus castus ... are of great service from their stiffness ... they are a convenient material to use in carving. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

They live with the belief that anything is acceptable if you can get away with it, that self-gratification is the most important aspect of existence, and that power comes only to she or he who is strong enough and cunning enough to snatch it from the failing hands of those who no longer deserve it. Compassion has no place in Menzoberranzan, and yet it is compassion, not fear, that brings harmony to most races. It is harmony, working toward shared goals, that precedes greatness. — R.A. Salvatore

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that. — David Brooks

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little. — Wyclef Jean

You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again. — Judith Hanson Lasater

Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. — James Lee Burke