Confederate General Sayings

#1. According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Allen Tate

#2. The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.

Amelia Earhart

#4. Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#5. I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.

Mary Quant

#6. Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

Brigitte Nielsen

#7. On Paper
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some call it poetry
but it is just pain
on paper
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The Poetic Assassin

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#8. Don't be intimidated by my outfit, it's Forever 21.

Natasha Leggero

#9. I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

Anne Wojcicki

#10. The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Isaac Asimov

#11. At last I have drawn a firm line under the truly astounding great column of figures and am done with pursuing that for which I am not sufficiently intelligent.

Robert Walser