Retort Stand Quotes & Sayings

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages. — Samuel R. Delany

All objects exist in a moment of time. — Amy Tan

Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very much to be let in on. An amiable smile stretched across his lips quoted by perfect dimples. I stared at him wanting nothing more than to indulge myself in that smile. — Shawn Kirsten Maravel

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money. — Walter Annenberg

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes. — Seth Godin

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge. — Chanakya

Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity. — Max Born

Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. — Gerry Rafferty