Southtown Star Quotes & Sayings

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well from one language to another, but we know that poetry does not; we may get a rough idea of the sense of a translated poem but usually everything else is lost, especially that which makes it an object of beauty. The translation makes it into something it was not. — Neil Postman

My wife said to me ... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that. — Oliver North

You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do? — CLAMP

The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same, there will always be men on the earth in the morning, there will always be the things made by God's hands - and all this history of cities and congress now will go, all modern history is only a littering Babylon smoking under the sun, delaying the day when men again will have to return to earth, to the earth of life and God - — Jack Kerouac

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty. — Bernie Sanders

...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. — Inio Asano

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool. — Q-Tip

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know — James Victore

The motherfucker really finds a way to say something very simple in a very complicated way," murmured Jean near Dan's ear. "How many words does it take him to say 'I love you'?"
"None." Dan murmured, smiling. "We're long beyond that. — Aleksandr Voinov

Koturovic's a surname," said Tim. "A patronymic. Not a middle name. — Peter Clines

We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is spoken. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. — C.S. Forester

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true. — David Jeremiah

I haven't been a leader
not at all. — Kyrie Irving