Unbuckling Pants Quotes & Sayings

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them. — Lilla Crawford

This for That

What will I have for breakfast?
I wish I had some plums
like the ones in Williams's poem.
He apologized to his wife
for eating them
but what he did not
do was apologize to those
who would read his poem
and also not be able to eat them.
That is why I like his poem
when I am not hungry.
Right now I do not like him
or his poem. This is just
to say that.

A kinesthesia for me! It is definitely the sort of poem that makes me go to the kitchen to check if a have some plumes. I really enjoy some of Padgett's poems! — Ron Padgett

I have loved words, I have hated them, and I hope I have used them well. — Markus Zusak

Equality is what does not exist among mortals. — E. E. Cummings

Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore. — Lauren Oliver

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti

Oined the circle and prayed with these men [homeless] who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion. — Ron Hall

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. — Philip Schaff

Two student wizards were arguing vehemently, or at least repeatedly stating their point of view in a loud voice, which suffices for argument most of the time. — Terry Pratchett

The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you. — Tamara Ecclestone

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing. — Glenn Close