Pollastrini Di Quotes & Sayings

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance. — Sarah Vowell

Fore Word
Poetry and prayer are synonymous in my life, and because both are a gift, which I accept with joy and sometimes pain, I seldom know whether I have served the gift well or ill. But perhaps that doesn't really matter; the important thing is to be willing - to want to serve the gift whenever it comes, either as verse or prayer ...
My heart's climate is not constant; I doubt if anyone's is. My inner weather shifts with the days. But much sunshine has shone on me through the sharing and giving and receiving.
And so I am taught to pray. And so I am taught to be. — Madeleine L'Engle

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn't have to fill our hearts. — Max Lucado

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. — John Ruskin

It's not like there's a law against flying."
"Yes there is. The law of gravity. — Laini Taylor

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life. — Paul Ekman

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest. — Stacy Allison

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup. — Venus Williams

I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong. — Louise Hay

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness. — Jan Morris

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat. — James Baldwin

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery. — Nas

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once ... — James Fallows

With 'House Party 4,' I did it with my own money, and I sold it to New Line. — Chris Stokes