Kostenko Quotes

#1. If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Friedrich Engels

#2. Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

Avril Lavigne

#3. How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

Marty Rubin

#4. I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

Anna Quindlen

#5. The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

Michael Masser

#6. Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life

Gerry Lopez

#7. You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

Gary Snyder

#8. Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#9. The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

John Dos Passos

#10. And the uniqueness of every moment
seeks the path from pain to a pearl.

Lina Kostenko

#11. Good man. Never turn down a man's beer, even if it tastes like cold horse piss.

D.A. Graystone

#12. The large, heavy, coal black doors creaked and groaned as she pushed them open in an expression of tiredness and fatigue from all the years of standing up right to preserve the entrance to the majestic building they guarded.

Jill Thrussell

#13. That is all. Two epochs met.
A silly little girl and an old poet.

Lina Kostenko

#14. Good bones of Bonesville," Sherlock Bones said. "If you know what you fear, you'll fear it less.

Jean-Luc Fromental

#15. Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ha-Joon Chang

#16. Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them.

Wolfgang Weingart

#17. And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.

Richard Wright