Takva Su Quotes & Sayings

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people. — Augusten Burroughs

Forgive me,
joy,
if I blasphemed you
before I learned to love. — Milan Rufus

...the God in whom the majority of Christians throughout history have professed belief would appear to be evil (at least, judging by the dreadful things we habitually say about him). And I intend nothing more here than an exercise in sober precision, based on the presumption that words should have some determinate content.

(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17) — David Bentley Hart

The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130. — Helen Oyeyemi

No one cares what YOU want, they only care about themselves. — Art Sobczak

Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all. — Terence Rattigan

as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century — Oscar Wilde

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. — Scott Nearing

The next name on the list is Ed Valiantbrue, which doesn't have an O in it anyway."
"O!" Sunny shrieked.
"O!" Klaus agreed.
"O!" Sunny insisted.
"Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean! If it doesn't have am O in it, it can't be an anagram of Violet Baudelaire. — Lemony Snicket

A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder. — Jaime Hernandez

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time. — Pema Chodron

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it? — George Carlin