Short Jailbird Quotes & Sayings

When darkness falls and eyes stay shut
A chain of voices opens up.
Let wax not wane give breath to death.
p.s. Shhh -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful) — Yvonne Woon

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world. — Italo Calvino

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
May look wrinkled and wet
And withered, and white as the snow,
But the taste of a thumb
Is the sweetest taste yet
(As only we thumb-sucker's know). — Shel Silverstein

Often, we will stay in a miserable status quo until the misery finally exceeds the resistance to change. True wisdom is seeing the future: what will happen if change does not happen? — David W. Earle

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors. — Herbert Agar

I plugged my ear buds into my phone and put Keane on shuffle. Those boys always knew how to speak to my mind. — Natasha Boyd

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. — Ezra Cornell

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive. — Hany Abu-Assad

To win,you must have both talent an desire- but desire first. — Sam Snead

But where do you go to get away from what's always there? — J.D. Robb

Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that. — Benedict Cumberbatch

He who is good is happy. — William Habington

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database. — Seth Godin