Decompositions Reactions Quotes

#1. Inhabiting a place that could not be home, they were like actors compelled to play themselves.

John Banville

#2. Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days
too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart
our battle-drum.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#3. Poetry is a form of necessary speech ... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#4. I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

Paul Feig

#5. Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

Robert Henri

#6. She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

Thomas Hardy

#7. Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

Gene Luen Yang

#8. Kate ranked the sunset against a few others and it came up short, but sunsets were like pizza, she though; they were all pretty good.

Lisa Lutz

#9. It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.

Robert Mallet

#10. I do think Bezos has an insatiable desire to be King Bezos," Musk said. "He has a relentless work ethic and wants to kill everything in e-commerce. But he's not the most fun guy, honestly."*

Ashlee Vance

#11. I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

Judy Blume

#12. You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Will Sergeant

#13. Softly the two names lingered on the air, died away more slowly than other words, other names, slower than music in the mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

Margaret Mead

#15. Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Thomas Moore