Polyrhythmic Structure Quotes & Sayings

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. — Regina Brett

Your success depends on how much fire of desire you have AND how much fuel of passion you feed it. — Vinita Kinra

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. — Paul Celan

It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life. — Sam Keen

There is no just and serene criticism as yet. — Henry David Thoreau

Note to self ... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised. — Norm MacDonald

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. — Gertrude Stein

It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being. — Mary Balogh

Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom. — Salman Rushdie

Communication is the life line of any relationship. Without it, the relationship will starve itself to death. — Elizabeth Bourgeret

I did it as first lady, I did it as a senator, I did it as secretary of state, and I know how hard it is. It's not something you do once or twice and then throw your hands up because it is grinding work. But it is necessary work. So I am really welcoming of the opportunity to meet with not only people who agree with me but those who don't to see what we can do to try to bridge the differences. — Hillary Clinton

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. — Chris Pine

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this. — Kent Hovind

[T]he whole talk about the absolute, is nothing but the cosmological proof incognito. This proof, in consequence of the case brought against it by Kant, deprived of all right and declared outlawed, dare no longer show itself in its true form, and therefore appears in all kinds of disguises - now in distinguished form, concealed under intellectual intuition or pure thought now as a suspicious vagabond, half begging, half demanding what it wants in more unpretending philosophemes. If an absolute must absolutely be had, then I will give one which is far better fitted to meet all the demands which are made on such a thing than these visionary phantoms: it is matter. It has no beginning, and it is imperishable; thus it is really independent, and quod per se est et per se concipitur; from its womb all proceeds, and to it all returns; what more can be desired of an absolute? — Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ... — Megan S. Johnston