Redescribing Quotes

#1. The conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors] ... to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.

Richard M. Rorty

#2. The universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being.

Paul Valery

#3. Old. Old is relative, girl. No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.

Hannah Crow

#4. Be yourself! Fill yourself up with light and fly!

Jodi Livon

#5. Just be simple, just be kind, just be loving.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?

Suzy Welch

#7. The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

Norman Cousins

#9. People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.

Amy Sedaris

#10. Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.

Debasish Mridha

#11. My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

Hunter Hayes

#12. Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

Libba Bray