Sonneteer John Quotes & Sayings

I wiped my jaw with a forearm, half imagining that I could still feel the product of the quickie out back of the bar. — Kaden Brown

Waking At Night
The blue river is grey at morning
and evening. There is twilight
at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark
wondering if this quiet in me now
is a beginning or an end. — Jack Gilbert

This was, after all, Ankh-Morpork, where a man walked free even if he was not, strictly speaking, a man. — Terry Pratchett

You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America. — Coretta Scott King

That was the trouble with working the doors, too many crybabies; you were always in a 'no win' situation. — Stephen Richards

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down. — Stefan Heym

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
[Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] — Ovid

Don't eat fruits or nuts. You are what you eat. — Jim Davis

Cricket was a manly game. Manly masters spoke of the 'discipline of the hard ball'. Schools preferred manly games. Games were only manly if it was possible while playing them to be killed or drowned or at the very least badly maimed. Cricket could be splendidly dangerous. Tennis was not manly, and if a boy had asked permission to spend the afternoon playing croquet he would have been instantly punished for his 'general attitude'. Athletics were admitted into the charmed lethal circle as a boy could, with a little ingenuity, get impaled during the pole-vault or be decapitated by a discus and did a manly death. Fives were thought to be rather tame until one boy ran his head into a stone buttress and got concussion and another fainted dead away from heat and fatigue. Then everybody cheered up about fives. — Arthur Marshall

The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished. — Paul Simon