Barry Cornwall Quotes

#1. The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Anne Lamott

#2. Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Horace

#4. For when you come to think of it, which is the real shape of the glowworm: the insignificant little creature crawling about on the palm of you hand, or the poetic spark that swims through the summer night?

Thomas Mann

#5. What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

Vicente Fox

#6. I do not wish to be an artist. I only wish that art enables me to be.

Noah Purifoy

#7. Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Barry Cornwall