Pleurezia Quotes & Sayings

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe. Who we are runs well below the surface of our conscious access, and the details reach back in time before our birth, when the meeting of a sperm and egg granted us with certain attributes and not others. Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history. — David Eagleman

We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone. — Richard Rohr

Suspected everyone did - from Winnie, the least pulchritudinous, — Kate Atkinson

For me, family means the silent treatment. At any given moment, someone is always not speaking to someone else.'
Really,' I said.
We're passive-aggressive people,' she explained, taking a sip of her coffee. 'Silence is our weapon of choice. Right now, for instance, I'm not speaking to two of my sisters and one brother ... At mine [my house], silence is golden. And common.'
To me,' Reggie said, picking up a bottle of Vitamin A and moving it thoughtfully from one hand to the other, 'family is, like, the wellspring of human energy. The place where all life begins.' ...
Harriet considered this as she took a sip of coffee. 'Huh,' she said. 'I guess when someone else does something worse. Then you need people on your side, so you make up with one person, jsut as you're getting pissed off at another.'
So it's an endless cycle,' I said.
I guess.' She took another sip. 'Coming together, falling apart. Isn't that what families are all about? — Sarah Dessen

A choice is like a jigsaw puzzle, darling troll. Your worries are the corner pieces, and your hopes are the edge pieces, and you, Hawthorn, dearest of boys, are the middle pieces, all funny-shaped and stubborn. But the picture, the picture was there all along, just waiting for you to get on with it. — Catherynne M Valente

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense. — Lynda Benglis

But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way. — Herman Melville

Except for a human-powered hoist described — Steven Vogel

Oh, fuck me running! Or on the edge of your bed using your mouth. — Georgia Cates

I'm being haunted by Gaspar the Friendly Ghost. — Michael Phillip Cash

We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie ... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't need the 50th generation version of it. — Buzz Osborne

If you use your clothes consciously they can become a way know yourself better and to live more consciously. — Glynis Mackenzie

Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach