Resplendent In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet. — Wallace Stevens

She loved to run. She could run forever. And she loved exploring every nook and cranny of the city, which was what a messenger got to do. — Jeanne DuPrau

Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame, and torment in her life, MAY I DO THAT? — Jim Anderson

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths. — Aminatta Forna

And if I tried to talk to him or, God forbid, ask him to take it easy on the whisky, he'd lash out. "Oh, sod off, Beryl. It's all easy for you, isn't it? — Paula McLain

Clarke, define resplendent. I think it's shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with pithy. Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir. Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics. Think of that. — Frank McCourt

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow. — Gene Simmons

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it. — John Mulaney

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I live in N.Y.C. and walk everywhere, so I like stylish shoes that are comfortable. — Vincent Piazza

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create. — Peter Thiel

The Promise"

Stay, I said
to the cut flowers.
They bowed
their heads lower.

Stay, I said to the spider,
who fled.

Stay, leaf.
It reddened,
embarrassed for me and itself.

Stay, I said to my body.
It sat as a dog does,
obedient for a moment,
soon starting to tremble.

Stay, to the earth
of riverine valley meadows,
of fossiled escarpments,
of limestone and sandstone.
It looked back
with a changing expression, in silence.

Stay, I said to my loves.
Each answered,
Always. — Jane Hirshfield

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care. — Paul Feig

Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else. — Tim Cowlishaw

If I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have. — Nick Hornby

When I talk about "creative living" here, please understand that I am not necessarily talking about pursuing a life that is professionally or exclusively devoted to the arts. — Elizabeth Gilbert