Spliceable Quotes & Sayings

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. — William Collins

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game. — Doyle Brunson

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it. — Zig Ziglar

Even the simplest poem
May destroy your immunity to human emotions.
All poems must carry a Government warning. Words
Can seriously affect your heart. — Elma Mitchell

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire? — Anita Shreve

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. — Robert Bly

The poem and the drama is not the experience except as we identify ourselves with it, and know what it feels like to have it. What distinguishes literature is that it cannot be understood unless we understand what it is like to be human. — Jacob Bronowski