Sheenagh Burgess Quotes

#1. Yves did not like showers, he preferred long, scalding baths, with newspapers, cigarettes, and whiskey on a chair next to the bathtub, and with Eric nearby to talk to, to shampoo his hair, and to scrub his back.

James Baldwin

#2. art is risk made visible

Arno Rafael Minkkinen

#3. Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a quiet night; you'll pick up the cadence. Look at the patterns the wind makes in dry sand and you'll see how syllables in a sentence should fall. Arthur Gordon

Arthur Gordon

#4. I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Ben Affleck

#5. You can't force someone to love you, especially when you're incapable of loving them in return.

Micalea Smeltzer

#6. Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

J.K. Rowling

#7. He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

Franz Beckenbauer

#8. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate.

Zora Neale Hurston

#9. The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.

Conan O'Brien

#10. Thesis plus antithesis equals hysteresis." -Ibid-

Terry Pratchett

#11. Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#12. Before I forget ... Beware the Ides of March.

Avan Jogia

#13. Sometimes what we want lies behind a door our own actions have locked tight.

Natasha Knight