Elleke Quotes

#1. That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

#2. Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.

Jane Hirshfield

#3. He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Khalil Gibran

#4. I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#5. I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

Ed Asner

#6. Look at you making a joke! You're funny. No wonder Carmine fell in love with you.

J.M. Darhower

#7. I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Nick Cave

#8. My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

Vicki Alayne Bradley

#9. I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.

Frank Zappa

#10. Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

Parminder Nagra

#11. We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

Marsha Blackburn