Yaddo Garden Quotes & Sayings

Near the end of his life he went into a tirade about people who had been "disloyal" to him, triggered by the most recent defection. — Walter Terry

Oh, I know!" Safi clapped her hands, delighted by her own genius. "I shall call you Un-empressed."
"Please," Vaness said coldly, "stop this immediately."
Safi absolutely did not. — Susan Dennard

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity. — Maria Callas

Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness. — Elie Wiesel

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures. — Mitt Romney

We cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love? — Ken Wilber

As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military to pick up the slack. . . . This requires still higher military budgets, which continues the devastating cycle. — Rosa Brooks

Ships capacity: 1,463
Passengers on board: 10,573
Lifeboats: 22
But then I remembered.
Ten of the lifeboats were missing — Ruta Sepetys

Get focused on arranging to survive so that we can do more than just get batted around by crazy people, desperate people, thugs, and leaders who don't know what they're doing!" She — Octavia E. Butler

I look all right. I look like myself. — Lena Dunham

Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??
We know to much so let's remove us?? — Deyth Banger

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit. — Gish Jen

The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%. — Kathy Freston