Donaghy Quotes

#1. I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

Michael Donaghy

#2. Do you know what it's like to be blessed with someone so special, to love them so much it hurts, and then have them taken from you forever?

Kim Holden

#3. School sounds a bunch more two-fisted than I'd thought.

Jonathan L. Howard

#4. Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

Michael Donaghy

#5. What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

Edward Young

#6. I looked up, but had to crane my head back, leaving the features above me wrong-side up. The clear green eyes were the same, and, unfortunately, so was the spiky blond hair. It didn't look any better from this angle, I decided.

Karen Chance

#7. What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

Richelle Mead

#9. Validate your direction, verify your results. Make resistance work for you by motivating you to continue the path you are on, to continue the journey to your very best. To continue on to where you previously feared to go.

Tony Curl

#10. The punishment for acting helpless is to find oneself at the mercy of others.

Marty Rubin

#11. Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is the high calling for which we were originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.

Nancy Pearcey

#12. Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

Kurt Sutter

#13. When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.

Theophilus London

#14. Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

Michael Donaghy

#15. I have gone into the waste lonely places

Theodore Roethke