Electric Prose Quotes

#1. The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

#2. The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own.

Melanie Tem

#3. Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

#4. Hard times refine us like gold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. Oh, to know God's private address.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#7. You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

Rex Stout

#8. I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

Bridgit Mendler

#9. 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Charles Edwards

#10. In the trees the night wind stirs, bringing the leaves to life, endowing them with speech; the electric lights illuminate the green branches from the under side, translating them into a new language.

E.B. White

#11. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

#12. Days grow hotter and life grows shorter.
Time is somehow running out.
She flips her pillow
so she won't have to sleep on her tears.

Toby Barlow