Tom Sleigh Quotes

#1. Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

Seamus Heaney

#2. He'd had a great baptism into the joys of Recreation and some of the intrigue and delights it could possibly offer.

Jill Thrussell

#3. I'm like a woman scorned. I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people.

Trent Lott

#4. Had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.

Donna Tartt

#5. Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.

William Crookes

#6. When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

Mark Hart

#7. Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch.

Tor Udall

#8. Fear and ignorance are the strongest weapons any ruler can wield.

Sara B. Larson

#9. The steam was thicker than expected and surprisingly easy to scoop up. Inside her mouth it swelled twice its original size and then burst into a series of delicate favors: savory cream sauce, then toasted cheese, and finally vanilla ice cream with a tinge of hazelnut.

Paige Britt

#10. But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?

Jacquelyn Frank

#11. I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

Jean-Francois Millet

#12. Tilli stroked her Chihuahua. Max's heart made a sound like the sleigh bells on Mrs. Santa Claus's dildo.

Tom Robbins

#13. It was as if the buildings were alive, growing right before their eyes as they got closer.

James Dashner

#14. The person I think I am is terrified of the person I really am, terrified of what others would think of that person. What would they do to me if they knew the person I really was? Better to be safe! Better to hide the real person, starve the real person, bury the real person!

John Verdon