Top 10 The Conch Bearer Quotes
#1. I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.
Youth Lagoon
#2. I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
William Shakespeare
#3. The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
Walter Ulbricht
#5. Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
Roberto Bolano
#6. I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#7. I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.
Meredith Monk
#8. Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.
Deena Metzger
#9. The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.
John Conyers
#10. Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!
Elizabeth Jane Howard