Wintgs Quotes & Sayings

Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot. — William Gibson

If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive. — Sylvia Dolson

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician. — William Shakespeare

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope. — Jack Miller

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves. — K. Martin Beckner

To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph
Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on,
testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade,
and think of that first flawless moment over the lawn
of the labyrinth. Think of the difference it made!
There below are the trees, as awkward as camels;
and here are the shocked starlings pumping past
and think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!
Feel the fire at his neck and see how casually
he glances up and is caught, wondrously tunneling
into that hot eye. Who cares that feel back to the sea?
See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down
while his sensible daddy goes straight into town. — Anne Sexton

Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss. — Anne Rice

Poets are thus liberating gods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil. — Baha'u'llah

I know," she said. "She could. She was really irritating like that." "Very," he agreed. There was a thoughtful sadness about him- one that seemed very familiar. "I guess she did know what she was doing a little," she said. "I got an uncle out of it, at least." Richard stopped pushing his folder and looked up. "Yeah." He smiled. "It's nice to have a niece, too. — Maureen Johnson

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. — Archibald MacLeish

Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

Nothing happens... but first a dream — Carl Sandburg