Quatrains Poem Quotes & Sayings

Incredulous, Hannah gasped. I certainly don't want to attract that kind of attention from Christian. It's ... it's sinful. — J.E.B. Spredemann

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things. — Conan O'Brien

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover. — Jimi Hendrix

But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!" — Tony Palermo

I have a healthy competitive nature. — Ridley Scott

My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic. — Cynthia Kadohata

Devotion to something doesn't make you an expert on life; Life makes you an expert on life. — Jami Attenberg

I learned in English class about surrealists. It was the first time I wanted to throw myself up so I could be marked present. Surrealism turns the whole world upside down. — A.S. King

Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. — Gwendoline Christie

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. — Andre Breton

What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls. — Denis Diderot

When everyone sees good, then bad exists. — Laozi

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. — Caroline Kennedy

I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws. — Anne Sexton

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away. — Nicole Kidman

In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don't change very much. This poem was written two thousand years ago or more. It's from a time long before the quatrains and other formal styles you've learned in school were established. And yet, even today, we can understand the feelings of people from that time. You don't need education or scholarship for that. These feelings can be understood by anybody, I think. — Kyoichi Katayama