Constraint Poetry Quotes

#1. Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.

Barry Commoner

#2. I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Art Buchwald

#3. The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.

Clive Barker

#4. Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.

Melissa De La Cruz

#5. Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.

N.K. Jemisin

#6. I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

Patricia Cornwell

#7. Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries

Jacob Barnett

#8. I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Walter Lord

#9. It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.

Cassandra Clare

#10. If I just swam all day, I'd lose it. That's why I do so many other activities. It keeps me sane.

Ryan Lochte

#11. The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Dashiell Hammett

#12. What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?

Laini Taylor

#13. He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

David Halberstam

#14. and I particularly loved biographies because they were about people who had to overcome obstacles or prejudices to get ahead. They made me think I could make it when nobody else believed in me, when even I didn't believe in myself.

Yeonmi Park