Predominating Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow-poets. The actual audience he gets consists of myopic schoolteachers, pimply young men who eat in cafeterias, and his fellow-poets. This means, in fact, he writes for his fellow-poets. — W. H. Auden

Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. — Susan Sontag

She walked away from him with swift, sure strides, as if she knew her destination. As if it had nothing to do with him. — Courtney Milan

Would pass in the street, mostly people whose existence I did not believe in, — Billy Collins

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it. — Aristotle.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers! — Michel De Montaigne

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it. — Larry Page

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly? — J.K. Rowling

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. — Terence McKenna

I couldn't believe this. My first very good friend had run off to Japan and never written me and now my second very good friend had stolen my cat. — Kristen Tracy

My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower. — Jon Stewart

11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. — Anonymous

At the birth of the universe, we were there, you and I, our potential stirring, unseen, among gaseous cloud of hydrogen atoms. "And even before then, we were there, our potential to be alive existing inside of whatever there was, even if no one was there to see it. For an eternity stretching back into the past, you always had the potential to someday be alive just as you had the ability to someday die. If we exist, we have always existed, and will always exist. — L. E. Henderson

The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller. — B. D. Wong

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. — Simon Van Der Meer