Jan Zwicky Quotes

#1. I don't know why they call them Cheerios, I ate an entire box and didn't feel any happier!!

Neil Leckman

#2. The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Elizabeth I

#3. One of the reasons I think we are sometimes critical of support for the arts is that art - lyric art in particular - can make us uncomfortably aware that economically expedient answers may not always be true.

Jan Zwicky

#4. Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.

Jan Zwicky

#5. But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead,healthy children.More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked child of thiers was an accusation of failure,a mockery of her own.

Toni Morrison

#6. It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on

Amby Burfoot

#7. I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Michael Connelly

#8. Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.

Jan Zwicky

#9. I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.

R. Kelly

#11. Love, I'm pretty sure, is light.

Jan Zwicky

#12. The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Don Van Vliet

#13. An old liar told me here
To think ahead and save my money.
I should have spent it on ribbons.
I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather played
When the daft wife heard him resounding
In the deep pine woods in early November.

Menzies McKillop

#14. I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

Bob Woodward

#15. If there is a counterfeit, there is an authentic that we need to find and reclaim.

Judy Franklin

#16. The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.

Kelly Jones

#17. It was an astonishing fantasy but it showed me what even apparently sensible people can believe if they really want to. I

John Cleese