Declamation Piece Quotes

#1. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. I saw us from above, from the sky, two flecks of being connected at the edge of the wide, pale ocean, lost to everything but each other.

Cristina Henriquez

#3. If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

Kate Zambreno

#4. So it isn't the masses who are to blame for demanding rubbish, but rather those who aren't capable of providing them with anything else.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#5. Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

Ted Allen

#6. The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

Hanya Yanagihara

#7. Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa

#8. A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.

John Owen

#10. Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

Alexander Chee

#11. "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

Henry David Thoreau

#12. There is something very curious in semantics, that the word 'meaning' is probably, in the whole language, the word the meaning of which is the most difficult to find. What does 'to mean' mean?

Anonymous