Shakia Smith Quotes & Sayings

...in Dillard it's the comedy of rapture. Or at least it's a comedy that permits prose and thought to soar while inoculating the rapturous against the three ills of which nature writers should live in permanent dread: preciousness, reverence, and earnestness... — Geoff Dyer

We fall in love for a smile, a look, a shoulder. That is enough; then, in the long hours of hope or sorrow, we fabricate a person, we compose a character. — Marcel Proust

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt

Every gift you give, will multiply a hundred-fold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't. — Edna Ferber

Boys popped wheelies that landed very near the men, then exercised their audacity by requesting quarters to stop. "I could scuff your shoes for nothin'," they said, "but when a quarter's — Daniel Woodrell

What is it men cannot be made to believe! — Thomas Jefferson

You swear you'll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up and on kitchen tables, you say "fuck" and "shit" a lot, and then one day, without warning, their words emerge from your mouth like long-dormant sleeper agents suddenly activated. You're still young enough to hear these words through the ears of the teenager sitting beside you, and you realize how pitiful and ultimately futile your efforts will be, a few measly sandbags against the tidal wave of genetic destiny. — Jonathan Tropper

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty