Eugene Roe Quotes

#1. Those bitter sorrows of childhood!
when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

George Eliot

#2. Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.

Eugene Roe

#3. A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's ... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#4. He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Paul Brunton

#5. 've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

David Levithan

#6. How many times do you get to be 35?
Eleven

Stephen Sondheim

#7. We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

Roland Joffe

#8. To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

W. H. Auden

#9. Jesus, Samara Jane, do you fuck your girlfriend with that mouth?"

She tugs my lip between her teeth. "Only when she's good.

Dahlia Adler

#10. My heart swelled, so full of love I didn't know how any physical body could possibly contain such power. I felt like my chest would burst.

Richelle Mead

#11. I've written fiction ... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

Jim Murphy

#12. Innovators are superior to imitators.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

Lorrie Moore

#14. Asymmetric intensity of the motives to avoid losses and to achieve gains shows up almost everywhere.

Daniel Kahneman

#15. I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.

Charli XCX

#16. I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.

Brandon Flowers