Quintynes Quotes & Sayings

Awakening is not a matter of working on issues. It is a matter of waking up from the dream in which those issues seem real. — Jeru Kabbal

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go! — John G. Stumpf

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb

I first tasted under Apollo's lips,
love and love sweetness,
I, Evadne;
my hair is made of crisp violets
or hyacinth which the wind combs back
across some rock shelf;
I, Evadne,
was made of the god of light.
His hair was crisp to my mouth,
as the flower of the crocus,
across my cheek,
cool as the silver-cress
on Erotos bank;
between my chin and throat,
his mouth slipped over and over.
Still between my arm and shoulder,
I feel the brush of his hair,
and my hands keep the gold they took,
as they wandered over and over,
that great arm-full of yellow flowers. — H.D.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role. — Rebel Wilson

Imagination's an odd thing, it dries up;
[Episode] — W. Somerset Maugham

We did not make this world...and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

Outside the youth center, between the liquor store
and the police station,
a little dogwood tree is losing its mind;
overflowing with blossomfoam,
like a sudsy mug of beer;
like a bride ripping off her clothes,
dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds,
so Nature's wastefulness seems quietly obscene.
It's been doing that all week:
making beauty,
and throwing it away,
and making more. — Tony Hoagland

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well. — Michael B. Jordan

To one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes of men, morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me. — Henry David Thoreau

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel

The sky was clear and the stars were growing bright. 'It's going to be a fine night,' he said aloud. 'That's good for a beginning. I feel like walking. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed! — Charles Spurgeon