Blatantly Def Quotes

#1. If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.

Randall Jarrell

#2. I am ashes where once I was fire...

George Gordon Byron

#3. If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

Richard Rohr

#4. Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.

Clare Balding

#5. We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

Billy Graham

#6. I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

Abbi Jacobson

#7. I'm not working, I want you to be with me. If there's a show you want to see or somewhere you want to eat, we can do that. But I do want you available to me completely at those times.

Adriana Locke

#8. To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James Baldwin

#9. The first rule for success? Show up.

Jeanne Robertson

#10. Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.

Paula McLain

#11. Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.

George R R Martin