Puissantly Quotes

#1. The grackles sing avant the spring
Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly.
They sing right puissantly.

Wallace Stevens

#2. I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

Ze Frank

#3. Because no windows were open and the air was so still and cold that the trees dared not move for fear of encountering more of it than they had to, Christiana thought that she had entered a city of the dead.

Mark Helprin

#4. As kids, we were taught to be the psychological equivalent of Navy SEALS- an elite parochial-school unit, drilled to take life's blows on the chin without wincing.

Maureen Corrigan

#5. If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Leigh Hunt

#6. I said i was dying not that i wanted to live

Tim Bowler

#7. Kira had a warrior's spirit inside her sleek, feminine frame, for true valor was best revealed when defeat was inevitable.

Jeaniene Frost

#8. It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

David Foster Wallace

#9. I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

Donald Freed

#10. If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Tom Cruise

#11. How is having a super orgasm going to increase the knowledge of Jesus Christ?

Mary D. Brooks

#12. I had everything I wanted in my hand. If I had to choose my eternity, I'd choose this moment, right now, with him. Because there's no place else I'd rather be.

Katie Kacvinsky

#13. The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Jim Cantalupo

#14. Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#15. Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Paul Harris

#16. Now we will all die. What a pity. I haven't done half the wicked things I wanted to do, and the ones I have done I haven't done anything like enough.

Kerry Greenwood