Timidated Quotes & Sayings

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever. — Marilyn Monroe

You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time
running out. Day after day of the everyday.
What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge.
Newness strutting around as if it were significant.
Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry.
I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death
when I cried every day among the trees. To the real.
To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive. — Jack Gilbert

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man. — Dick Van Dyke

Most do not understand what sight is. The mind isn't free. If you don't want to see something, you simply just need to open your eyes. — Lionel Suggs

You do not have to respond to a tiny annoying mosquito with a large hammer. You know what will happen? You will miss and hurt yourself. — Mary Ashun

Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minutes earlier and announced that a crazed Ethiope was at the door, presumably to buy a watch. — K.W. Jeter

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either. — Dave Brubeck

Openings and closings, beginnings and endings. Everything in between passes as quickly as the blink of an eye. An eternity precedes the opening and another, if not the same, follows the closing. Somehow everything that lies in between seems for a moment more vivid. What is real to us becomes forgotten, and what we don't understand will be forgotten, too. — Philip Glass