Richman Elementary Quotes & Sayings

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. — Allen Tate

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. — Ellen Goodman

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. — Harper Lee

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear. — Bo Bice

For some reason, she thought of how the old people wept when they played fado music at the annual Portuguese Festival. Saudade , her great-aunt Del called it: homesick music. But according to her father, the emotion was about more than place. It was a profound longing for everything that was lost and would never be regained. — Patry Francis

Codependents make great employees. They don't complain; they do more than their share; they do whatever is asked of them; they please people; and they try to do their work perfectly - at least for a while, until they become angry and resentful. — Melody Beattie

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible. — Viggo Mortensen

As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude ... Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.
-DONNE — Oliver Sacks

And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write. — Kelli Russell Agodon

He was personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society he grew up in. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat. — Martin Luther