Annotating Poetry Quotes

#1. You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be.

Iain M. Banks

#2. We have ... drawn a line in the sand.

George H. W. Bush

#3. Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

David Sutcliffe

#4. First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.

Gerard Arpey

#5. If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

#6. Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

Josh Billings

#7. Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy.

Jessie Burton

#8. It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot ... or cosmic rays or a power ring ... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

Mark Millar

#9. More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

Ken Kesey

#10. Know thyself,' said Socrates.
Know thyself,' said Sappho, 'and make sure that the Church never finds out.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. Just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

E.L. Konigsburg