Hoffmeier Israel Quotes

#1. The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind ... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Laura Riding

#2. That's what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn't worry - poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow

Anne Sexton

#3. I bet you can't eat ten bananas!"
"I bet you're right.

Sarah Dessen

#4. As I went through the city by day
I saw shadows in sunlight;
But in the night I saw everywhere
Stars within the darkness.

John Gould Fletcher

#5. Many of the vagabonds found me. They despise the way the war is being handled. They see the way your agendas inhibit progress but had no way to let their voice be heard. I gave them a way.-Kara

S.M. Boyce

#6. In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations ... , by large law firms ... on more than one occasion(, and) ... by special interests ... (some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct ...

Orrin Hatch

#7. You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done.

Jason Statham

#8. We don't LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are

John Bytheway

#9. The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

#10. I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

Edward Brooke

#11. Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

John Steinbeck

#12. Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

Karin Slaughter