Volusia Library Quotes & Sayings

My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. — Clarice Lispector

You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap. — Jules Furthman

Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the — H.G.Wells

Three forty-five-pound plates on each side of what Kenji told me is an Olympic bar, which weighs an additional forty-five pounds. I can't stop staring. I don't think that I've ever been more attracted to him in all the time I've known him."
"So this gets you going, huh?"
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"I've never seen him in sweatpants before ... "
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"I bet you've seen him in a lot less. — Tahereh Mafi

Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it. — Barack Obama

What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life?
You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks.
Take four unrelated people and make a family. — Sarah Ellis

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes. — William Everson

anyone who has done any teaching or coaching knows that one's mastery of a subject deepens considerably in trying to explain it. — Rafael Aguayo

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort. — Barbara Mertz

There is a hugely underserved population out there ... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest. — James Cameron

Feelings demand living space. — Isidore Isou