Pousssey Quotes & Sayings

those with no eyes to read readily are doomed — Ardant Du Picq

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How was Gengo to know, Saigyo reflected, that this unheroic existence imposed even greater torment than the icy lashings of the Nachi Falls in its thousand-foot leap? How was Gengo to realize that Saigyo had not slept a single night undisturbed since he had fled his home for the Eastern Hills, that his sleep was haunted by the cries of his beloved daughter from whom he had torn himself.
Who knew that during the day, when he went about his tasks of drawing water and chopping wood as he composed verses, the sighting of the wind in the treetops of the valleys below and the pines surrounding the temple sounded to him like the mourning of his young wife, and so troubled his nights that sleep no longer visited him? Never again would Saigyo find peace. He had wrenched asunder the living boughs of the tree that was his life. Remorse and compassion for his loved ones would dog him to the end of his days. — Eiji Yoshikawa

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement. — John Green

You tell them you have a hunger and a thirst. You don't sit at the same table but you have a hunger and a thirst. — A. J. Jacobs

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. — Armand Assante

Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person! — Rick Riordan

I just love to bake chocolate cakes and anything unhealthy. It makes me very popular. — Helena Mattsson

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. — Jean Marais

Without good company all dainties
Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
Are only seen, not tasted. — Philip Massinger