Cory Basil Quotes

#1. Poetry doesn't pay. But I need it. And so do you.

Cory Basil

#2. i dream a thousand
words before i
sleep.

Cory Basil

#3. Then they started a fire
And I burnt to ashes

Cory Basil

#4. He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.

Harper Lee

#5. Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.

Cory Basil

#6. Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

Thomas Jefferson

#7. who you are is who you are when you are alone.

Cory Basil

#8. It's hard to tell whether or
not hell's flames are getting
closer

Cory Basil

#9. I move forward
with my
drawer of treasures
that will never decay.

Cory Basil

#10. One way or another he was going out in two weeks, and God help me, I wanted to protect him. More than that, I wanted to save him.

Rachel Ward

#11. Isn't that the whole idea?' I asked. 'It's supposed to stop them from being criminals!' She shook her head. 'That's not what I mean. A lot of people make bad mistakes. But being in jail can make them feel like a mistake is all they are. Like they aren't even people anymore.

Rebecca Stead

#12. As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.

Cory Basil

#13. Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

J.R. Ward

#14. We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#15. a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor.

Amos Oz

#16. Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

Bruce Friedrich

#17. Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

#18. Emma: It's obvious he likes you. So painfully obvious - and what does he do about it? Nothing.

Cecilia Gray

#19. a first kiss is like a drug

Cory Basil

#20. His heart ... responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not.

Lauren Groff

#21. Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place.

Cory Basil

#22. There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

Bill Moyers