Texidor Throws Quotes & Sayings

As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might be called lyrical, they often contain closed statements of what is only suggested in the poetry. — Pattiann Rogers

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. — Ivan Turgenev

My ability is my most prized possession, even though it separates me from everyone else. But for power, for my own power, it is a price I am willing to pay. — Victoria Aveyard

Never underestimate the audacity of the small minded and slightly crapulous.
A rather bleezed young neighbour decided to have a grammar battle with me. It lasted all of two seconds.
I said something slightly amicable, and he responded with, "You sure that's how you use that word?"
I put down my laundry basket and turned to him slowly and deliberately.
"Do you really want to have this discussion with me, son, or do you want to go home and rethink your life?"
He grumbled and vanished. — Michelle Franklin

One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director. — Quentin Tarantino

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song. — Richard Llewellyn

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. — Chuck Palahniuk

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat. — T. S. Eliot

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy. — Gayle Forman

Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events. — Daniel Kahneman

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. — James A. Garfield

An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world. — Iain Pears

They were not victors, he and his kind, not in any way, they were the defeated still, for they had become like their betters. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time. — Eckhart Tolle

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. — Solomon