Twigged On Quotes & Sayings

A hundred years or more, she's bent her crown
in storm, in sun, in moonsplashed midnight breeze.
surviving all the random vagaries
of this harsh world. A dense - twigged veil drifts down
from crown along her trunk - mourning slow wood
that rustles tattered, in a hint of wind
this January dusk, cloudy, purpling
the ground with sudden shadows.
How she broods -
you speculate - on dark surprise and loss,
alone these many years, despondent, bent,
her bolt-cracked mate transformed to splinters, moss.
Though not alone, you feel the sadness of a
twilight breeze. There's never enough love;
the widow nods to you. Her branches moan. — Lauren Lipton

Neither the Choice of his Friends, nor that of his Dishes, was the Result of Pride or Ostentation. He took Delight in appearing to be, what he actually was, and not in seeming to be what he was not; and by that Means, got a greater real Character than he actually aim'd at. — Voltaire

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job. — Ruby Wax

It's Faye. Chace and I are here, Malachi. We're here. We found you. You're safe now. — Kristen Ashley

I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either. — Andrew Dominik

Truly informed sources rarely expect others to accept their conclusions simply because they assert them. — Anthony Weston

I've been told that I am "better in the room" and prettier in person. — Amy Poehler

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them. — Reinaldo Arenas