Trodonte Quotes & Sayings

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. — Jim Jarmusch

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime. — Tiffeny Milbrett

A feeble body weakens the mind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back. — Cecily Brown

Biology is a force to be reckoned with. An ugly child you love with all your heart and soul, you. But it's different. You're pleased with your third-floor walk-up, also, until someone invites you I've to dinner at a house with a pool in the garden. — Herman Koch

All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves. — Kim Stanley Robinson

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate. — Charles Dickens

It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums. — John Hughes

Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers. — Thomas De Quincey

I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left. — Studs Terkel