Blaxland Riverside Quotes

#1. As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

Simon Armitage

#2. After a while, I began to notice that the good moments with Brad began to outweigh all the sadness. The sadness that was my life became the moments, and my happiness with Brad became my life

Colleen Hoover

#3. And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind

Jacques Roubaud

#4. I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

Lauryn Hill

#5. The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

Kim Wilde

#6. I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

Ryan Lochte

#7. If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for you. Chances are the parents don't feel seriously about coming to meet with teachers.

Bill Cosby

#8. She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#9. In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

Mason Cooley

#10. Behind this dark cloud we call life, with its occasional silver linings, there is a blue sky bright with the everlasting light of that hidden world full of majesty without suffering. It is the domain of the one about whom some of us say, 'God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid.

Brad Keena

#11. Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.

Fernando Pessoa

#12. Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

Douglas Coupland

#13. I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

Dana Hill

#14. Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Kim Stanley Robinson