Negres Quotes

#1. I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness

Frank O'Hara

#2. Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?"
Doug: "Only in my dreams."
Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred."
Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.

Robin Jones Gunn

#3. , her mouth working mutely like the valve of an undersea creature

John Banville

#4. The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little.

Nikolai Gogol

#5. He could not have explained the intensity of his attraction to {her}, that blissful ache that welled up in his chest at the sight of her barefooting across the dock, the feeling a distant cousin of nostalgia, as if he'd already won and loved and lost her.

Michael Knight

#6. Father, You are calling upon me to be completely humble and gentle; to be patient, bearing with others in love. (Eph. 4:2) Please empower me with Your Spirit to be obedient to this command.

Beth Moore

#7. I'd like to say I'm one of the tight ends here and I hope this week helps me show that I do have the talent to be considered that.

Maxx Williams

#8. Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

Louis Althusser

#9. My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

Thomas Demand

#10. Child, you suffer from an excess of great stupidity or great bravery. I'm not sure which.

J.C. Daniels

#11. I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

Nicolas Winding Refn