Isleys Hello Quotes

#1. The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

John Ashbery

#2. Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

Jane Leavy

#3. Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

Honore De Balzac

#4. The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

Penn Jillette

#5. Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

Ivan Glasenberg

#6. By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

Socrates

#7. She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#8. In any case, we do not and cannot understand what magic is, or where it comes from, any more than a carpenter understands why a tree grows. He doesn't have to. He works with what he has.

Lev Grossman

#9. Dear Lord, make us truly grateful for what it is that we are about to receive.

Ina May Gaskin

#10. We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are ... We are all of them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.

Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

#13. All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good; there is no static meaning as such.

Harshit Walia

#14. You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

Wayne Shorter