Liebegott Quotes

#1. There is safety in the very heart of danger.

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

Ali Liebegott

#3. I have to have an adjustment before I go into the ring. I do believe in chiropractic. I found that going to a chiropractor three times a week helps my performance. The majority of boxers go to get that edge.

Evander Holyfield

#4. Anything for you Francesca" ~Cade

Felicia Tatum

#5. Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

Ali Liebegott

#6. As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

Ali Liebegott

#7. The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

Ali Liebegott

#9. It's not like I hate gay people.

Ali Liebegott

#10. I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my banal habits and living like that seems entirely possible, a feeling that always dissolves by the next morning, when I wake up to the familiar, unmovable shapes of my own life.

Nicole Krauss

#11. I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to put military bases on Mars, we'd be at Mars in two years. That would be quick. I don't want that to be the reason.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.

Ali Liebegott

#13. Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

Norm MacDonald

#14. Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate gay people."

Ali Liebegott

#15. When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

Ali Liebegott

#16. When we arrived at the hospital, you were in a medically induced coma, which I was made to understand was a sort of freezing of you, a fabricated reprieve from your own body that would allow your internal organs to rest.

Jan Ellison

#17. You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

Glenda Jackson

#18. For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Ali Liebegott

#19. We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. [ Romans 8:28

Max Lucado

#20. Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

#21. I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Ali Liebegott

#22. I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Ali Liebegott

#23. There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

Ali Liebegott

#24. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Salvador Dali

#25. Integrity is not what you APPEAR to be when all eyes are on you. It is who you ARE when no one is looking.

Stormie O'martian

#26. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

George Carlin

#27. Being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#28. I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

Ali Liebegott

#29. In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

Ali Liebegott