Uspjela Sam Quotes & Sayings

The perfect pouf of a dandelion going to seed: a firm center surrounded by a sphere of feather-winged seeds, delicately congregating, a wispy aura where just yesterday there was a thick yellow bloom. Touched by the slightest wind, the emanation disperses and sends tiny slivers of dandelion being out into the world to propogate their own kind. — Susan Tyler Hitchcock

I once heard Don DeLillo quip that a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them. — Mary Karr

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic. — Mel Torme

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. — Desmond Tutu

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda. — Susan Brownmiller

so full of himself he could have shit limbs. — David Foster Wallace

The Richest person is not the Happiest person, the Happiest person is the Richest person. -RVM — R.v.m.

Dev catches me in my moment of triumph, and for an instant, a weird, wicked gleam passes over his features. Great, now he'll think I was jealous. I take in the broken ceiling and the huge chunk of it that sits on the floor.
Yeah, okay, maybe I was. — E.J. Mellow

In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the poor, he said: Look at the people of Briancon! They have conferred on the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single murderer among them. — Victor Hugo

That's what my penis is like: a beautiful, thorny rose. — Dash Shaw