Vandewalle Candy Quotes

#1. It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#2. You're a philosopher." "No. Just drunk.

Richard Kadrey

#3. Thankfully failure was a better teacher than success

Toni Anderson

#4. We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she'd never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

Jarod Kintz

#6. It's one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it's the worst when friends become strangers,

Hayley Williams

#7. Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

William Graham Sumner

#8. Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

#9. Then he glanced at Roar, who waited on the dock. Maverick had never heard him speak a word. He'd only seen Roar stare vacantly at the water, or at the sky. "You know, you could do a lot better than him, ladybug." Aria shook her head. "No. I couldn't.

Veronica Rossi

#10. Marriage is like a magnifying glass. It simply magnifies the misery or the happiness that you had as a single person.

Bo Sanchez

#11. The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.

Walt Whitman

#12. I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

Roberto Bolano

#13. It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

Jeffrey Sachs

#14. I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

Rachel Kushner

#15. Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

Gavin Bryars