Yeldell Bastrop Quotes & Sayings

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Samuel Johnson

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts. — Adyashanti

A coward's courage is in his tongue. — Edmund Burke

I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end. — Lynne Truss

Ram. My lord constable, the armor that I saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?
Con. Stars, my lord.
Dau. Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.
Con. And yet my sky shall not want.
Dau. That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and 'twere more honor some were away.
Con. Even as your horse bears your praises; who would trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.
Henry V, 3.7.69-78 — William Shakespeare

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play. — Aaron Sorkin

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. — Maya Angelou

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed. — James Carlos Blake

If we know ourselves, and know our hearts, we're always home, anywhere. — Dawn Kohler

The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married. — Jessie Burton