Poetics Summary Quotes & Sayings

I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?' — G. Willow Wilson

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want. — Michael Jackson

I'll splurge on Toblerone. I love Toblerone with the Swiss chocolate and nougat in it. — Jordin Sparks

Marty stayed busy as a chemistry major at Seattle University, — Jamie Ford

From now on, consider yourself a con artist. — Carsten Jensen

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall. — LL Cool J

Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant. — Debalina Haldar

The woman who presents herself to the spectator as a 'picture' forever arranged, is, for the contemplative mind, the chiefest danger. Sometimes one meets a woman who is beast turning human. Such a person's every movement will reduce to an image of a forgotten experience; a mirage of an eternal wedding cast on the racial memory; as insupportable a joy as would be the vision of an eland coming down an aisle of trees, chapleted with orange blossoms and bridal veil, a hoof raised in the economy of fear,stepping in the trepidation of flesh that will become myth; as the unicorn is neither man nor beast deprived, but human hunger pressing its breast to its prey.
Such a woman is the infected carrier of the past; before her the structure of our head and jaws ache -- we feel that we could eat her, she who is eaten death returning, for only then do we put our face close to the blood on the lips of our forefathers. — Djuna Barnes

The more we can address an issue the moment we perceive it, the calmer and more present we are, and the easier it is for others to follow our lead. — Christine Comaford

Realize that time will never stop. NEVER. You will never be younger again. It's like being on a train with no stops that's always leading you farther and farther from home... or closer and closer to home, depending on how you look at it. You can never get off that train. You can never board a train going the opposite direction. If you missed a stop, tough shit. — Johnny B. Truant