Scrolling Stock Quotes & Sayings

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. — Dana Gioia

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. — Ben Hecht

History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there. — Cressida Cowell

Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy ... — Tanya Luhrmann

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering. — Parker J. Palmer

I think up to a point people's characters depend on the toilets they have to shut themselves up in every day. You get home from the office and you find the toilet green with mould, marshy: so you smash a plate of peas in the passage and you shut yourself in your room and scream. — Italo Calvino

It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be? — Penelope Lively

They rung my bell to ask me.
Could I recommend a maid.
I said, yes, your momma. — Langston Hughes

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? ... That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility. — Philip Gerard

We have consumed each other from day one. And we truly never let go. — Krista Ritchie

And this was what a couple of that age looked like. If they were lucky. — Louise Penny

The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. — Lao-Tzu