Toothy Tile Quotes & Sayings

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything. — Mark Sheppard

Literature exists because the world isn't enough. — Fernando Pessoa

I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow. — Wallace Stevens

People talked about therapy and change and the power of Christ, but maybe you just had to wake up one day and say you weren't going to do it anymore, you just weren't going to act like someone who felt that way, and you had to begin by saying words that felt strange on your tongue, even if they resonated inside your heart. — Christopher Rice

these kind of features are strong indicators of a strong oral tradition, that the writing was more an aid of what people have already memorized, that you went to the text already knowing what it should say. — Keith E. Small

It was the first time Junko felt a certain "something" as she watched the flames of a bonfire: "something" deep down, a "wad" of feeling, she might have called it, because it was too raw, too heavy, to real to be called an idea. It coursed through her body and vanished, leaving behind a sweet-sad, chest-gripping, strange sort of feeling. — Haruki Murakami

Poetry, the most intimate form of expression, gives us a deeper sense of reality than headlines and news stories ever could. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Being treated by a doctor who specializes in your kind of cancer is so important, especially for those of us who have rare or very rare cancers. They will have access to newer treatment options that may be offered only at big academic cancer centers, so you don't miss out on treatments that could help you. — Kathy Giusti

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil? — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile. — Ellen Glasgow

My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth. — Karen Salmansohn

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me. — Marcel Dzama

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. — Curtis Sittenfeld