Strake Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster

The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it! — Margaret Deland

A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair. — Robert Frost

I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect", under current extreme conditions.. "wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be ... what has happened inJapan ... has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse. — Charlie Munger

The CIA currently has in custody two FBI agents and a Boston police detective who is demanding they pay for the damage to his boat."
"He's okay?"
Burns nodded. "Emptied a double-barreled shotgun at a couple of Company lackeys, and then they arrested him. He spent all night claiming he thought they were the Men in Black coming to scan his brain"
Ty bit his lip so he wouldn't laugh.
about Nick — Abigail Roux

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live. — Joni Mitchell

It would be my pleasure to leave the gentleman at the door and fuck you four ways dirty. — Vi Keeland

The most important thing an artist
can discover is a love of process. — Kody Chamberlain

You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more groovy. You gots to stay home tonite and read a good book!!!!!!!!!! — James Ellroy

The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation. — Billy Collins

I've written some poetry, but ... songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing. — Mike Gordon

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark. — T.A. Cline