4711 Quotes

#1. Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

Ken Livingstone

#2. Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.

C.S. Pacat

#3. A thing named is a thing tamed.

Joanne Harris

#4. Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and said something really funny probably. He kicks off his sheet and slides his feet into his slippers. Bunny sits in the living room, slumped low on the sofa, full of Geoffrey's Scotch and Poodle's cocaine.

Nick Cave

#5. When the wind came it split the sky and shouldered the cloud-band left and right; unbarring great clear furnaces of rolling gold.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. [ ... ] the heart moving through a tunnel,
in it darkness, darkness, darkness,
like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves,
as though we were drowning inside our hearts,
as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul.

Pablo Neruda

#7. And the stars in the night were the eyes of his wolves, and the wind itself was their song.

George R R Martin

#8. Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.

Sharon Critchfield

#9. First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it's the "definitive" something, I'm always recoiling.

Nicholas Meyer

#10. Books were not quite an escape for me. And they were never my friends. They were so much more than that - utilitarian and unbreakable. They were my armor, my wall against the world.

Annika Martin

#11. The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.

Edward Hirsch