Shortboard Volume Quotes & Sayings

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning. — Kiese Laymon

The world is known by the senses
The senses are known by the mind
The mind is known by Consciousness
And Consciousness is known by itself — Rupert Spira

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it. — Karen Thompson Walker

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course
with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here
to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. — Henry James

He's coming over," Lindsay says. "What do you want me to do? Kick him in the balls? I've been dying to kick him in the balls. — Stephanie Perkins

Living is hard. And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As lond as you open your eyes and keep going. — Cora Carmack

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration. — John F. Carlson

Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized, a reading our eyes wish to view. Poetry is refined, a structure our moral selves seek. Poetry is civil, instigating the world to remain sane. Poetry is not ordinary, but it needs the ordinary eyes to continue to be the interesting art form of expression. Poetry is like a child communicating, who later grows to be an adult communicating in prose. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will. — Thomas Paine

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. — Temple Grandin

I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested in my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don't imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them. — Jessica Abel

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most. — Russell Simmons