Tongue Sores Quotes & Sayings

Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher. — Deborah Moggach

Lip-chewed debtors rich in excuses; heard-it-all creditors tightening nooses; prisoners haunted by happier lives and ageing rakes by other men's wives; skeletal tutors goaded to fits; firemen-turned-looters when occasion permits; tongue-tied witnesses; purchased judges; mothers-in-law nurturing briars and grudges; apothecaries grinding powders with mortars; palanquins carrying not-yet-wed daughters; silent nuns; nine-year-old whores; the once-were-beautiful gnawed by sores; — David Mitchell

The road does seem long before you embark on the journey,
That's why I think the most difficult part is to start.
But when you are in motion, and steps taken become many,
Nothing can stop you; that's only if you guard your heart. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master. — Jerry Wexler

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. — Michael Pollan

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good. — John Knox

A poem is a small machine made of words ... Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. — William Carlos Williams

Everything I can say about what it means to lose, what it means to do without, the inadequate weight of the past, you already know. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes. — Anne Applebaum

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time. — Rob McKenna

Alan:I used rabbit-skin glue to size the panels. I got it from the art
shop. I don't know if they use real rabbits in it. It seems kind of a
shame if they do, but then it's not like there's a rabbit shortage, is
it? And maybe they only used rabbits that would've died anyhow. — J.L. Merrow

I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion. — Raf Simons