Urban Fanstasy Quotes

#1. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#2. Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

Eileen Myles

#3. Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

Charles Kennedy

#4. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

Henry Miller

#5. If you are willing to dream and then work hard and execute well, you can achieve more than you ever imagined.

Maynard Webb

#6. Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

Eugene Cernan

#7. "It's rock star stuff. You wouldn't understand. Bendy straws are the shit."

Kim Holden

#8. Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

Thomas Pynchon

#9. Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

John Of The Cross

#10. I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read.

Susan Choi