Syvn Hair Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps I am his hope. But then she is his present. And if she is his present, I am not his present. Therefore, I am not, and I wonder why no-one has noticed I am dead and taken the trouble to bury me. For I am utterly collapsed. I lounge with glazed eyes, or weep tears of sheer weakness.
All people seem criminally irrelevant. I ignore everyone and everything, and, if crossed or interrupted in my decay, hate. Nature is only the irking weather and flowers crude reminders of stale states of being. — Elizabeth Smart

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. — Immanuel Kant

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. — Harry Mathews

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work. — Jerry Rice

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

Not only do I recommend [Wendell] Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy his books in quantity and send them to people. I bought a few dozen of his newest, "Our Only World." — Nick Offerman

And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room. — Ford Madox Ford

The best thing about living ... Is the chance to keep on doing it! — Lena Horne

In the leaping light, as the fresh wood blazed up, Frodo saw many grey shapes spring over the ring of stones. More and more followed. Through the throat of one huge leader Aragorn passed his sword with a thrust; with a great sweep Boromir hewed the head off another. Beside them Gimli stood with his stout legs apart, wielding his dwarf-axe. The bow of Legolas was singing. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that. — Kit Harington

Life is heavier than the weight of all things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I am life, I am strength, I am woman. — Julia De Burgos

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. — Charles Haughey

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. — Rabindranath Tagore

The technology of food matters even when we barely notice it is there. From fire onward, there is a technology behind everything we eat, whether we recognize it or not. Behind every loaf of bread, there is an oven. Behind a bowl of soup, there is a pan and a wooden spoon (unless it comes from a can, another technology altogether). Behind every restaurant-kitchen foam, there will be a whipping canister, charged with N2O. — Bee Wilson