Tess Gallagher Quotes

#1. It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.

Tess Gallagher

#2. When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

Tess Gallagher

#3. The past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.

Tess Gallagher

#4. Family time was hard when it was your own family, it had to be twice as hard when you were the girlfriend.

Jennifer Close

#5. My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Jamie Dimon

#6. It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.

Tess Gallagher

#7. Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Pema Chodron

#8. Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore.

Paul Scheer

#9. Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

Louis MacNeice

#10. Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.

Max De Pree

#11. The things that hurt us teach us.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. That's what poems are for,
unlivable love.

Tess Gallagher

#13. My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

Amy Adams

#14. This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.

J.M. Barrie