Diane Glancy Quotes

#1. Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

Diane Glancy

#2. Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

Alexander Pope

#3. I always felt that there was something different about me but I did not know what it was. I was socially awkward, friendship was difficult and I was envious of the way other people were able to interact. For

Stephen J. Bedard

#4. Within a few short hours, he nearly had me agreeing to try deer jerky for the first time. Almost. If it weren't for Cam continuously whispering "Bambi" in my ear every couple of minutes, I would've caved.

J. Lynn

#5. Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

Henry Francis Lyte

#6. Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Diane Glancy

#7. Philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization ... but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?

Isaiah Berlin

#8. They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!

Roseanne Barr

#9. Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.

Diane Glancy

#10. The first stage of any development is infancy.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

Diane Glancy

#12. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

Magnus Carlsen

#13. The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

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#14. Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Diane Glancy

#16. Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.

Diane Glancy

#17. Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

Diane Glancy

#18. There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud

Carl Sandburg

#19. Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

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#20. It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Diane Glancy

#21. War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: "How am I contributing to this problem?

David W. Earle

#22. Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.

Diane Glancy