Yahya Bootwala Quotes & Sayings

That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience. — Matthew Zapruder

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'd been kissed before, many times, but never like that. — Fisher Amelie

If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes — Sun Ra

Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it. — Dane Cook

(after Quigley explains that the ghosts have been feeding off of their misery)
Toma: So, what, we should think happy thoughts?!
Duane: That is not a talent of mine. — Ashley Cope

I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you. — Dacia Maraini

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header. — George Will

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos. — Chen Guangbiao

Everything you say is worthwile to me. Even when you don't let me finish a sentence. — Tara Kelly

Politicians often lie. — Paul Weyrich

Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time. — Ronald E. Yates

We're going to need each other through this. All of us. But if you can't do that, then I'm going to play hardball. I'm going to do whatever it takes. Some of it will frustrate you, some of it will turn you on, and some of it will hopefully really piss you off — Samantha Young