Swirled Concrete Quotes & Sayings

Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day. — Joan Didion

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself. — David Starkey

I don't have to blow up everything I see ... I just like to. — Aaron Allston

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. — Shepard Smith

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us. — J.M. Barrie

On that day, in jungle hamlets and mountain villages, in cacophonous slums and sprawling refugee camps, on worn concrete floors and under roofs thatched of rice straw and banana leaves, in clay brick homes, on rutted, red dirt roads, and on scorching swaths of sand, children cried and screamed and sang and giggled and toddled and ran and fell and got back up and climbed on their mothers' laps and pulled their siblings' hair and gazed out in wonder at the big, bright world that swirled around them. Millions of boys and girls whose lives were reclaimed whose stories were allowed to continue, who were not mourned or grieved or buried, but instead were loved and held and fretted over and scolded and prepared for the challenges of living, of surviving, all because of a man they had never met and whose name they would likely never know. — Adam Fifield

A Millionaire becomes richer not when he earns his next Million but when he spends it on a Noble Cause.-RVM — R.v.m.

John is a man of his word. And so am I. — Bruce Irvin

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself. — Bonnie McKee

I don't want to be called a good loser. A good loser is still a loser. — Stu Ungar

This world was made to be cloaked in gray.
It wouldn't feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time. — Darren Shan

I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.
A Knight's Tale — Geoffrey Chaucer

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture. — Cal Thomas