Wolf Stansson Quotes & Sayings

Comedy and tragedy are basically the same thing. Comedy is just the art of making light of life's sufferings. Turning all your pain into a joke. — Katie Kacvinsky

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance. — Laurence J. Peter

Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace. — Cathleen Falsani

Everyone's got their hands out waitin' for you to take one. You gotta learn when to take someone's hand before you fall. — Kristen Ashley

A poem is like a penny; each word has its worth! — Carl McKever

They have so smothered me in their middle-class refinement that I don't know how there can be any blood left in my veins. I lowered my eyes, put on a dismal, silly expression, just like them; I was just as dead-and-alive as they were. — Emile Zola

A loose feather can't be put back...but a broken wing can sometimes heal. — Bob Graham

On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission. — Martin McGuinness

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general. — Rachael Yamagata

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out. — Laurence Tribe

This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver. — Boris Pasternak

You challenge me to be a better person. And no one else does that, except maybe my mother. — Jody Hedlund

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life. — Richard Wright