Usta Midwest Quotes & Sayings

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick. — John Burnside

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here. — Jeet Thayil

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. — Rita Dove

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful. — Bryan Stevenson

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. — Paul Tillich

When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away, Pepe told the young doctor. — John Irving

I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go. — Christian Scott

I don't like relationships, though. I mean, it is nice and all, but I prefer to be the friend. I don't know why. They're kind of exhausting. — Abraham M. Alghanem

People believe in god because they can't think to be alone. — Augusten Burroughs

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad. — Sterling Marlin