Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Marianne Moore

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Amiri Baraka

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

John Whittier

Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.

Samuel Ullman

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Marilyn Hacker

When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.

Philip Levine

Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Billy Rose

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Beth Moore

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

John Flavel

When the corn is nearly ripe it bows the head and stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying...Paul had one foot in heaven when he called himself the chiefest of all sinners and least of saints.

Claes Oldenburg

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Brendan Myers

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.

Ann Voskamp

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Alan Autry

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Jonathan Steinmetz

We are pleased to see results improve, but our enthusiasm is tempered by several factors.

David Hockney

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

David Hume

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Brad Bird

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

Alan Sugar

If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.

Jarod Ingersoll

When we come to play with enthusiasm, and we're all together, we're a pretty good team.

Charlie Chaplin

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART"...

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Charles Sumner

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Charles de Lint

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

Charles de Lint

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

Charles de Lint

Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

Charles de Lint

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Charles de Lint

Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

Charles Dickens

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

Charles Dickens

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Charles Stanley

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

Charles Stanley

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

Charles Stanley

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Charles Stanley

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ben Harper

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Benjamin Franklin

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Brooke Shields

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

Clark Gable

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Charles Bukowski

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

C. S. Lewis

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

Cher

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon

Charlize Theron

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!

Andrew Mason

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

Alber Elbaz

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

Benjamin Franklin

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Brooke Shields

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

Clark Gable

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Charles Bukowski

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

C. S. Lewis

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

Cher

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon

Charlize Theron

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!

Andrew Mason

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

Alber Elbaz

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.