Cabbages And Kings Quotes

#1. Please God, please Knut Hamsun, don't desert me now. I started to write and I wrote:
The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax
Of cabbages - and kings -

John Fante

#2. I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

Natasha Trethewey

#3. Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

Rick DeMarinis

#4. Cat's waiting is a kind of love.

Jie Zhang

#5. What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

Jack Davenport

#6. There are three principles in a man's being and life:
The principle of thought, the principle of speech,
and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict
between me and my fellow-men is that I do not
say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Martin Buber

#7. She was a blank, clean, white sheet for me to scribble on. And I scribbled. On her lips, on her jaw, her neck and collarbone. I jotted my hunger for her in vivid colors as

L.J. Shen

#8. A driver reaches a destination by driving on that road, not by laying back to enjoy the view.

Nabil N. Jamal

#9. I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

Ewan MacColl

#10. It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ...

Mary Parker Follett

#11. We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon would be formidable.

Charles Wheelan

#13. Unwilling to give-up & willing to fail. That's how you succeed.

Sachin Kumar Puli

#14. Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence

O. Henry

#15. You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

Michael Scott

#16. The phone rings.
"Asshole," she mutters. She picks it up.
"Will you let me explain?"
"No." She hangs up.

Lisa McMann

#17. I can protect you against everything except myself.
- Derek

Lisa Kleypas

#18. I am to wait, though waiting so be hell.
Sonnet 58.13

William Shakespeare