Stolovan Quotes & Sayings

My job defines me, amuses me, thrills me and makes me feel like I am making a difference. — Kathryn Primm

And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue — Carol Ann Duffy

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too. — Tom Waits

Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars ... — L.J.Smith

There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us. — Philippa Carr

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school. — Matthew McConaughey

I know I wasn't the person you needed me to be before, but I can be if you'll let me. — Rachel Spangler

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance. — Lisa Wingate

But love gets in the way of her paper flowers, love keeps them secret from Papi. Chabella and Papi have ways of looking at each other, ways of touching that are full of stunned caution. They trip over each other constantly, marvel each time. When Mami sits down at the table, wiping her hands on her cooking skirt after she's set dishes down before us, Papi takes her hand, strokes her fingers, says her name as if he's asking it. Mami nods at him; her lips smile, her eyes smile. I grew up doubting that anyone would ever look at me in the same way. My doubt contains no great trauma; it's casual, the way people doubt they can jump off a bridge and fly. — Helen Oyeyemi

It's a birthday party," sniffed Mal. "And I wasn't invited. — Melissa De La Cruz

But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business. — Joseph Kosinski

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. — Robert Altman

For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it ... The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention. — Riane Eisler

If we ask what poetry is
we may say in general that it is
a victory over the world;
it is through a negation of the
imperfect actuality
that poetry opens up
a higher actuality — Soren Kierkegaard