quotes for myspace

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ~Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto, 1961



It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. ~Seneca



Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. ~Bert Greene



I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~Mark Twain I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain. ~Linda Solegato



Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. ~Richard Kemph



Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."



Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Music is what life sounds like. ~Eric Olson



Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. ~P.J. O'Rourke



He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. ~Saint Bernard of Clairvaux



The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~Alan Gregg



There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter



What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot



There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600



The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~Pablo Picasso



I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~Wilson Mizner



Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. ~Martin H. Fischer



I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~Vincent Van Gogh



The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. ~S.A. Sachs



If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did." ~Saturday Night Live, Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts "