Rimantas Cerniauskas Quotes & Sayings

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet wants to 'say' something. Why, then, doesn't he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether. — Cleanth Brooks

I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do. — Suzi Quatro

Injuries made me a believer in cross-training. — Florence Griffith Joyner

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books. — Richard Flanagan

Don't worry. These cowboys are all in line. Nice, law-abiding batch here, only want to help you reach your dreams. They're nothing like that last group who rolled through town with branding irons and rape-trusses and shotguns. These are the good guys. — Jeremy Robert Johnson

Stonetooth took his place. "I give you a life for duty," he meowed. "Remember what you owe to your Clan as well as what your Clan owes to you." He touched noses with Brokentail, who flexed his claws briefly and then was still. — Erin Hunter

I'd always keep going back to the acting. Once the rent was paid, and the phone bill, the next money you had was for acting classes. — Dennis Christopher

The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us to become readers, and the town's library had been the one place, other than church, that we visited every week. — Eleanor Brown

I've been broken and she's my missing pieces, all of them. My heart wants what it wants. She is the other half of my soul. I will never feel whole until she's mine. — Christine Zolendz