Trenntech Quotes & Sayings

Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards. — Geoffroy Birtz

On Telegraph, she stopped him in front of Walgreens, put the sack into his hands, a finger to her lips. "I'll come back." He was left to contemplate the sidewalk, full of listless earring vendors ready with their piercing guns. — Jonathan Lethem

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors. — Sharon Olds

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. — Ray Bradbury

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion. — Truman Capote

Plato was a bore. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself? — C.S. Lewis

Love is love. It doesn't matter what kind it is. — Banana Yoshimoto

I can't kill him and he can't keep me alive. The world we've lived in together is an illusion that can't be maintained. The edges are fraying, curling away to reveal the harsh reality beneath. The lion and the lamb do not lie down together. It just can't be. — Kitty Thomas

Often in the morning he drove a long hour or more to the markets in the city, there to behold what would determine the day's special. With the crates of fresh selesctions snuggled into his station wagon, his thoughts on the ride back confronted the culinary equivalent of the writer's blank page. Sometimes his head swirled with exciting ideas; other mornings he was in a panic upon returning with the same old eggplant and squash and zucchini and nothing but the dullness of the word ratatouille standing by to mock him. — Nancy Zafris