Renvoi In Private Quotes & Sayings

Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe. — J.M. Coetzee

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head. — Jill Scott

We were barely moving, barely swaying, but under my skin, there were earthquakes, tidal waves. Solar flairs. — Sarah Fine

To grow up is to grow apart. — Nicola Yoon

Theologians have done more to hide the Gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries. — George MacDonald

I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring. — Kim Deal

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
[Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Events themselves are unimportant. It is the perception of events that is crucial. — John E. Ferling

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. — Charles Baudelaire

Most of the travel was purposeless, carried out in exactly the desperate spirit of fleeing from pursuers. It was romantic, in a certain sense. Especially if you're not the one doing it. — Charles Frazier

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand. — E.L. Doctorow

Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. — George Crabbe

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. — Wole Soyinka

Disagreements don't mean a loss of compassion. — Kiera Cass