Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

John Ashbery

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

John Ashbery

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

John Ashbery

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how....

John Ashbery

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ...

John Ashbery

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.

John Ashbery

This whole moment is the groin Of a borborygmic giant who even now Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

John Ashbery

Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

John Ashbery

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

John Ashbery

Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat....

Joey McIntyre

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

Joey McIntyre

I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.

Joe Namath

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

Joe Cocker

Love lift us up where we belong.

Jodi Picoult

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Jodi Picoult

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Jodi Picoult

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Jodi Picoult

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Jodi Picoult

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Jodi Picoult

There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

John Grisham

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Rest if you must, but never quit.

John Greenleaf Whittier

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

John Green

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

Patti Smith

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

Pat Schneider

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.