Antilamentation Quotes

#1. You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house after the TV set has been pitched out the upstairs window. (from "Antilamentation")

Dorianne Laux

#2. I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed.

Tony Magistrale

#3. In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

Vitruvius

#4. I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women ... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Florence Nightingale

#5. I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

Curtis Jackson

#6. History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

John Updike

#7. If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.

Satoshi Tajiri

#9. I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've mostly met nice girls-and that's what attracts me.

River Phoenix

#10. For digital natives, public schools are jails

Bing Gordon

#11. Sometimes you have to just act normal to make the world *be* normal.

Daryl Gregory

#12. I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

Anne Lamott

#13. I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.

Marian Keyes

#14. Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides ... A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.

Augusto De Luca