Proselike Quotes & Sayings

I will not be pawn in their games — Suzanne Collins

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song. — Benmont Tench

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be. — Jacqueline Woodson

Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon ... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked. — Winston Churchill

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter. — Paul Gauguin

I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy. — Marilyn Monroe

If I don't make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat! — April Mae Monterrosa

No, I've never played baseball in my life. — Jay Hernandez

I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss. — Toni Bentley

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales. — Dave Barry

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies. — Grenville Kleiser

There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays. — Giovanni Raboni