Poetet Me Te Quotes & Sayings

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories. — Jane Cleland

Were those still tears in his eyes? Would that they could hide his crimes. — Brandon Sanderson

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits. — Christina Aguilera

As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't. — Scott Seegert

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters. — Will Self

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else. — Nhat Hanh

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors. — Felix Frankfurter

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale. — Tony Blair

All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part. — Julian Of Norwich

Too much agreement kills a chat. — Eldridge Cleaver

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. — Arianna Huffington

This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. — Donald Barthelme

But the thing was, I didn't want it. Maybe I never really had. I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. I was there now. Or close. — Cheryl Strayed