Yelkenci Group Quotes & Sayings

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. — Martin Amis

[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things. — Barbara Myerhoff

I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we cant confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on. — Will Rogers

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now — Drake

The hormonal and metabolic environment of the body within which calories enter determines how your body deals with those calories. — Scott Abel

One critic wrote ... that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted. — Stanley Kunitz

Lord I thank you for the grace of living life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Didn't I tell you that you would be safe as long as you were with me?"
"Yes, but I didn't believe you when you pushed me off the edge of a building. — Missy Lyons