There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALTruth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSON -
I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.
ROSE MCGOWAN -
When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I’d never be, I’d never be the same.
MARIAH CAREY -
I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
CLAUDE MONET -
Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone’s face.
DALE CARNEGIE -
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
SAADI -
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
MARTIN LUTHER -
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
BRIAN KERNIGHAN -
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING -
I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
VIN DIESEL -
Even though I always claimed that I didn’t want to write about something – once I wasn’t writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.
VITO ACCONCI -
Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin” -Bobby Pendragon
D. J. MACHALE