Smalltown Poets Quotes & Sayings

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions. — Sigmund Freud

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. — Bill Nighy

You cannot prepare enough for anything. — James Galway

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion. — Vincent Bugliosi

And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. And he knew that if he spoke, she wouldn't be able to resist; so the daemon held himself quiet so as not to distress the human who was abandoning him, and now they were both pretending that it wouldn't hurt, it wouldn't be long before they were together again, it was all for the best. But Will knew that the little girl was tearing her heart out of her breast. — Philip Pullman

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world. — Haruki Murakami

Even in our most intense worship, we should not forget that our relationship to god is tied to our relationship with others. — Jeffrey Lang

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive. — Nhat Hanh

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern. — Peter Coyote