Pushcart Press Quotes & Sayings

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher — Mahatma Gandhi

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them. — Richard O'Brien

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed. — Rumi

Each day we hold things in our heart, sometimes these things are heavy. Carrying God's grace with us each and every day lightens life's load. — Ron Baratono

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on. — Anna Friel

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower. — Martin Amis

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination. — George Bernard Shaw

I eat kung pao chicken like it's going out of style, but I'm pretty sure I don't have an Asian cell in my body. I love Toni Morrison novels although I'm not black. I'm straight and I'm happily married. The reason I work here is because I think you deserve that, too. — Jodi Picoult

It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. — Kevin Spacey

I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us in! We're all wearing leather! Open the door! We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!" — Jerry Seinfeld

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
O flakes of snow,
For which, through naked trees, the winds
A-mourning go? — John B. Tabb

It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69. — Scottie Pippen

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian. — Larry Norman

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. — Robert Louis Stevenson

..., its unity, unfolding through all the panels, would have given the illusion of an endless whole, of water without a horizon or bank; nerves tense from work would be relaxed there...and to him who lived in the room it would have offered the refuge of a peaceable meditation in the center of a flowering aquarium. — Claude Roger-Marx