Quisessemos Quotes & Sayings

My mama steps out of her dress
and drops it, an inheritance falling to my feet.
She stands alone: bathed, blooming,
burdened with nothing of this world.
Her body is naked and beautiful,
her wings gray and scorched,
her brown eyes piercing the brown of mine.
I watch her departure, her flapping wings:
She doesn't look back, not even once,
not even to whisper my name — Brenda Sutton Rose

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. — William Shakespeare

The books ... they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether. — Tahereh Mafi

A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's fun to learn a new playbook. — Andrew Luck

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists. — Kenny Chesney

A belief imposes limitations, an understanding invites possibilities, and experience initiates transformation.
- Todd Anthonsen999 — Todd Anthonsen

I believe the number is 70% of the world's refugees since World War II have been taken in by the United States. Every year, year in, year out, the United States admits more legal immigrants than the rest of the world combined. The United States has granted amnesty before to three million illegals and appears prepared to do it again. — Rush Limbaugh

Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind. — Gilbert Seldes

How can we aid you with our kindred tears? — William Shakespeare

A deeply felt novel ... The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life. — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get across. — Denis Johnson

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you. — Alicia Keys