Arissa Hill Quotes

#1. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

Ray Bradbury

#2. When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower ... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'

Jay Leno

#3. Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Edward T. Welch

#4. What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Harold Bloom

#5. I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

John Engler

#6. So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

Sri Aurobindo

#8. In every long-term relationship are a few pockets of deep and dangerous water into which one can step unaware if not careful. Eventually, somebody drowns or the interested parties post warning signs around these pockets.

Poppy Z. Brite

#9. I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

#10. I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important ... what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

Ian C. Esslemont

#11. This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Sarah Manguso

#12. Forgive a wrong done you by your neighbor; Then your sins will be pardoned when you pray.

Anonymous

#13. In addition, human beings have, in the most recent few tenths of a percent of our existence, invented not only extra-genetic but also extrasomatic knowledge: information stored outside our bodies, of which writing is the most notable example.

Carl Sagan

#14. I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

Evel Knievel

#15. The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Rocco Buttiglione