Ykan Cyprus Quotes & Sayings

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible. — Nick Flynn

An Omelet a la Feb," she corrected him.
"I can't say that," he told her.
"Why not?"
"I'm a man, Feb. I don't say shit like, 'a la' anything. — Kristen Ashley

But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice. — Gerhard Richter

Imperialistic war is a rebellion of technology which collects, in the form of "human material," the claims to which society has denied its natural material. Instead of draining rivers, society directs a human stream into a bed of trenches; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way. — Walter Benjamin

Axel pressed harder against me and somehow I was turned until I was chest to chest with him. — C.L.Stone

I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again. — Steve Goodier

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sometimes he wished he didn't have a sister, though he loved Deenie and still remembered the feeling he had when he caught that kid Ethan pushing her off the swing set in the school yard in fifth grade. And how time seemed to speed up until he was shoving the kid into the fence and tearing his jacket. The admiring look his sister gave him after, the way his parents pretended to be mad at him but he could tell they weren't.
These days, it was pretty different. There'd be those moments he was forced to think about her not just as Deenie but as the girl whose slender tank tops hung over the shower curtain. Like bright streamers, like the flair the cheerleaders threw at games.
Sometimes he wished he didn't have a sister. — Megan Abbott

Guess what, Satsuki! I realized something wonderful!
I don't have to be a teacher to light the way for others. I can make my dream come true in other ways!! And for that, I need you. It has to be you. I love you. Without you ... I can't even smile. — Bisco Hatori

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around. — Cole Porter

Marry the person who gives you the same feeling you get when you take the very first sip of COFFEE in the morning! — Tanya Masse

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward. — Diplo

She herself often felt too terrified to go on, but she had never admitted it out loud — Kate DiCamillo