Roethkes My Papas Waltz Quotes & Sayings

I asked, "Why were you crying?"
But she didn't answer, because I hadn't said it out loud.
The truth was that I was too grateful for her presence here at all to push my luck by asking questions that might frighten her away. So I babbled to her about my classes and the foibles of Paul and Doritos as alarm clocks, and I was completely flippant and funny and even as she began to laugh, I was dying with wanting. — Maggie Stiefvater

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go. — Curtis Jackson

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. — Gore Vidal

[Richard] remembered asking Tommy once why he didn't want to transition into a woman.
"And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I'm still all man. I'm just a man with decoration."
Tommy Wilkins, A Very Tate Christmas (Tate Pack #3) — Vicktor Alexander

I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I said it! You were all thinking it, I said it! — Carlos Mencia

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. — Felix Dennis

You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then ... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer. — D.C. Fontana

The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased. — S.E. Lindberg

Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely! — Robert A. Heinlein

A strong egoism is a protection. — Sigmund Freud

When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense. — A. J. Jacobs