Skyhooks Balanciers Quotes & Sayings

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come. — A.A. Milne

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Man is a messenger who forgot the message. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance. — Pinchas Zukerman

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons. — Jonathan Swift

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. — Susan Sontag

Life in the trenches has been well documented, though mostly from the point of view of the victors. Especially in the English-language literature on World War I, there is not a huge amount that captures the experiences of the ordinary German soldier. The present translation of my grandfather's memoirs of his time on the Western Front may offer some redress. — Gunther Simmermacher

I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention. — Eugene H. Peterson

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. — Angela Davis

You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. These days it only matters who's in charge. Right now that's us - for a while at least. Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore. — George Clooney

Why did you give up hope? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner