Sidestepped Def Quotes & Sayings

A poetic form is essentially a codified pattern of silence. We have a little silence at the end of a line, a bigger one at the end of a stanza, and a huge one at the end of the poem. The semantic weight of the poem tends to naturally distribute itself according to that pattern of silence, paying especial care to the sounds and meanings of the words and phrases that resonate into the little empty acoustic of the line-ending, or the connecting hallway of stanza-break, or the big church of the poem's end. — Don Paterson

One thing was certain: he was my one. Most people go on their whole lives and never find their one, but I found mine. I found him when I was twelve-years-old. — Jennifer Edlund

I sat down and came up with a caption that I thought would fit well on the poster - something that was short and succinct but got a point across. The latest poster was a direct quote - it was exactly what the woman told me. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men. — Marcel Proust

When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this other place, or, in the case of an illustration, I felt like I could walk into the page. — Jan Brett

Alex's T-shirt is red, and — Lauren Oliver

You cannot win the future if you don't forgive your past — Ikechukwu Joseph

A miracle happened. Right there and then, in amongst the lunchtime diners and tourists, with the sweeping views of San Francisco Bay outside the window and the sea lions making a racket on the wharf below, a miracle happened. And Samuel lost any hope of recovery. Lily laughed. — Lexxie Couper

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. — Rebecca Skloot

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way. — Stephanie Herseth

It's never to late to be what you might have been — Katherine Applegate

The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try to pose as democratic-he must be democratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen, would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen for very long. He must ring true. — T. Coleman Du Pont

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds. — Lance Armstrong

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that. — Tim Harford