Somigliante Quotes & Sayings

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization. — A.R. Ammons

If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.' — Sophie Monk

I'm not adorable," Wade protested. "I am manly and grizzled and have no emotions. None. — Molly Harper

Storm is not your enemy; it does not even know whether you are there! Your enemy is your unpreparedness for it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air. — Ray Bradbury

Passionate living is the soul of success. — Daniel Amen

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

~Message to the House of Representatives, 3 December 1793 — George Washington

You don't just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you're in love with someone and want to express that love physically. — Sarah Mlynowski

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction. — Ivan Illich

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated. — Tom Petty

If you're sexy and you know it put your hands up in the air. Put your hands up in the air, girl, put your hands up. — Chris Brown

We've created over 200,000 jobs every month this year. Hasn't happened in 17 years. I guess my first question is, when do the Republicans stop calling it 'Obama's economy'? — Bill Maher

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do. — Jane Krakowski

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale. — Ingrid Newkirk

Oh, and don't even fucking think of cheating. If I catch you cheating, I'll cut the bitch's face off and sew it onto your face. That way, if you want to see your bitch so much, you can just look in the mirror. — Bijou Hunter