Scansions Quotes & Sayings

My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have ... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time. — Karen Brown

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. — Julien Green

I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing river with her incantations; her voice makes the earth gape, it lures the spirits from the tombs, send the bones tumbling from the dying pyre. At her behest, the sad clouds scatter; at her behest, snow falls from a summer's sky. — Tibullus

British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any — Charles Dickens

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in. — Sheryl Crow

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels. — Paul Auster

Without peanut butter, I might starve. — Judy Blume

Lovers' reading of each other's bodies (of that concentrate of mind and body which lovers use to go to bed together) differs from the reading of written pages in that it is not linear. It starts at any point, skips, repeat itself, goes backward, insists, ramifies in simultaneous and divergent messages, converges again, has moments of irritation, turns the page, finds its place, gets lost. A direction can be recognized in it, a route to an end, since it tends toward a climax, and with this end in view it arranges rhythmic phases, metrical scansions, recurrence of motives. But is the climax really the end? Or is the race toward that end opposed by another drive which works in the opposite direction, swimming against moments, recovering time? — Italo Calvino

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. — George Orwell