Lamantia Desk Quotes

#1. I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.

Donald Hall

#2. A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

Susan Sontag

#3. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.

Shelby Foote

#5. Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.

Carol Alt

#6. Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

John Muir

#7. Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.

Ana Menendez

#8. Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.

Max Horkheimer

#9. My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

Gene Perret

#10. Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Humans rarely look back to the past, until they have made the same mistake!

Lucinda Riley

#12. So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

Mary Engelbreit

#13. Necessity is the last and strongest weapon

Livy