Shelly Undateable Quotes & Sayings

You know what a publisher is? He's a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he's able to appropriate other people's talents. — Joel Dicker

Kindness gives courage. — Debasish Mridha

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. — Cormac McCarthy

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne

developments and detail our shared outlook — Greg Ip

We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men. — Rudolf Rocker

To a fault, Ann has always been a very sensitive, trusting woman. It's as if she was born to feel and experience the world more acutely than the rest of us. It is both her greatest strength and weakness; if recognized by someone with devious intentions, this delicate quality can be easily exploited... — Mitch Cullen

If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew.
And you must sew my holey socks,
And soothe my troubled mind,
And develop the knack for scratching my back,
And keep my shoes spotlessly shined.
And while I rest you must rake up the leaves,
And when it is hailing and snowing
You must shovel the walk ... and be still when I talk,
And-hey-where are you going? — Shel Silverstein

We are a generation that is obsessed with nostalgia. Everything from the past is so readily available in ways that it never was before and because of that, western civilization will experience a period of arrested growth. The future holds fifty-year-old men and women running Disney Princess blogs. Bank on it. — Jayme K.

When I was a Poet
Everything was Possible
there wasn't Anything
that wasn't Poetry — David Meltzer

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. — Dean Koontz

Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will. — Mata Amritanandamayi

When in doubt, just throw your hair in a topknot — Chelsea Leyland

And the whole online thing is like, I just, that to me is a world that doesn't exist. It's not something you could touch or lick or smell. And as my eyes get worse, it's very hard to read. And there's no money in it. I mean, it's like they pay, like the best you can go is 1970 prices. — Richard Meltzer