Towards Another Summer Quotes & Sayings

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. — Sylvia Plath

It's early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping. — Greg Plitt

I began the piling of words,
to dig myself out
to dare myself — Anne Michaels

Now journeys were not simple matters for Grace; nothing is simple if your mind is a fetch-and-carry wanderer from sliced perilous outer world to secret safe inner world; if when night comes your thought creeps out like a furred animal concealed in the dark, to fine, seize, and kill its food and drag it back to the secret house in the secret world, only to discover that the secret world has disappeared or has so enlarged that it's a public nightmare; if then strange beasts walk upside down like flies on the ceiling; crimson wings flap, the curtains fly; a sad man wearing a blue waistcoat with green buttons sits in the centre of the room, crying because he has swallowed the mirror and it hurts and he burps in flashes of glass and light; if crakes move and cry; the world is flipped, unrolled down in the vast marble stair; a stained threadbare carpet; the hollow silver dancing shoes, hunting-horns ... — Janet Frame

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed. — Sparky Anderson

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before. — Geoffrey Canada

Nice," the clerk said without a smidgeon of judgment in his voice as he rang her up. "I especially like the way you've got the entire junk food pyramid represented here. That's not easy to do. — Jill Shalvis