Terrance Quotes & Sayings

It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily. — Terrance Hayes

The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about. — Terrance Dicks

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary
you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash. — Terrance Hayes

I don't know anything about press conferences."
"Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help. — Cory Doctorow

One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book. — Terrance Hayes

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued. — Charles Hugh Smith

In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera's work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day. — Terrance Hayes

My mother was a dark red head wrap. Her life had been heavier than the fire she carried on her back. This is the meaning of the past, Boy. There were maps & scriptures carved into my palms, whole towns — Terrance Hayes

The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists. — Terrance Dicks

Some relationships are bad for you, you want to get out of there as soon as you can, and others are good. You like them, you like them to stay that way. And others change us, and we're never the same. We walk away and we say, "Something happened to me, I am different . . . — Wayne Earl

When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience. — Steve Karagiannis

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks ... Soon it will all make sense. — Terrance Hayes

I'll eat you to live: that's poetry. — Terrance Hayes

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of
him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation.
Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew
different parts of the whole story,
but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate
fragments of what had ... once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder
about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought. — Tom Clancy

I am carrying the whimper
you can hear when the mouth is collapsed, the wisdom
of monkeys. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.
Brothers and sisters, when you spend your nights
out on a limb, there's a chance you'll fall in your sleep. — Terrance Hayes

I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom's soliloquy of yes. — Terrance Hayes

Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul. — Terrance Hayes

Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you'd come? — Terrance Hayes

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff. — Vince Gill

I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged. — Cesare Pavese

The passing seconds became dangerous and spacious. The rules tinkled silently as they broke. — Frances Hardinge

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines. — Edward Gibbon

If you and every person in the county mailed
me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think
I could rehabilitate the sheep. — Terrance Hayes

Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes. — Sherwood Anderson

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. — Benjamin Franklin

The girl's still unconscious. I'm surprised you didn't kill her.'
'These miniature versions have parents. And parents ask questions. — Terrance Dicks

To step into God's will is a step into a different realm, even though your feet remain on firma terra. — Toni Sorenson

No point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish. — Terrance Dicks

I believe everything is a metaphor for sex. — Terrance Hayes

I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling. — Terrance Hayes

This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing. — Terrance Hayes

Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event. — Terrance Hayes

Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation. — Frederick Lenz

Always say 'Yes' to the problems and face them with positive attitude. — Phillip Terrance

A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time. — Terrance Zepke

The identity of the model for the Syra-Cusa has been debated. Terrance Killeen, in an article in the Irish Times, thought her to be Nancy Canard, but Knowlson considered Lucia Joyce more likely.
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The most profound "clue" is simply the character's name, for Lucia Joyce had been named for Lucia, martyr of Syracuse, patron saint of eyes, light, and lucidity. — Carol Loeb Shloss

we give time to the things we care about. — Jarrid Wilson

They drove back to her house in silence. Terrance pulled the car into the driveway and turned off the engine. Turning toward her, he said, "Khadejah, I really like you a lot and I don't want to hurt you. But I'm not a virgin and I like to have sex. If we're going to keep seeing each other, you've got to make a decision, because if I can't get it from you I'll get it from someone else." He looked her straight in her tear-filled eyes. "I need to know whether to get a room for after the concert. Let me know tomorrow." He reached over and opened her door.
Khadejah didn't say a word. She got out of the car and went into the house.
Terrance sat there for a few minutes wondering if he was being fair. She had to know that he was having sex. Damn, I should feel honored that she's still a virgin, he thought. Shit, I'll just have my cake and eat it, too.
Ten minutes later, Terrance was knocking on Adrienne's door. "Hey, can I come in? — Tracy L. Darity

If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings. — Susan Polis Schutz

Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry? — Terrance Lane Millet

One cannot find out whether or not there's an extraterrestrial intelligence inside the mushroom unless one is willing to take the mushroom. — Terrance McKenna