Supreme Court Gay Marriage Decision Quotes & Sayings

Victory won't come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times — Marianne Moore

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under. — Jeanette Winterson

Good morning, the city says. Fuck you. — Marie-Helene Bertino

The Thwaites lived on Central Park West in the upper Eighties, in a building that, while manifestly grand, particularly to someone from Ohio, was by no means the most elegant among its neighbors. Its lobby, for one thing, was little more than a wide corridor, with two drably upholstered wing chairs propped against a wall and, between them, a glass table upon which rested an elaborate but unaesthetic arrangement of silk flowers. The light in the corridor was greenish, dim and lavatorial, barely illuminating the shallowly carved figures that marched, in pseudo-Egyptian fashion, along the pink stone tiles as far as the elevator. The floor, incongruously, was of a black and white parquet, upon which all but the softest slippers echoed ominously. And the elevator itself - paneled, with brass fixtures and a single tiny red velvet stool, presumably for its operator's comfort - seemed again of a different, though no less ancient, era. — Claire Messud

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income. — Frank Bruno

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence. — Wayde Goodall

Once again I'm left wondering how he does things to my body without even touching it. Heaven help me if he actually does. — Mila Ferrera

Pain is essential for survival, pain is the tangible material that creeps into our mind and screams at us to recognize that something is terribly wrong. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot. — Nick Burd

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future. — Pope Pius XII