Walter Deemer Quotes

#1. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Haruki Murakami

#2. There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

Jessica Simpson

#3. One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Laurie Colwin

#4. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.

Marsha Petrie Sue

#5. Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

C.D. Wright

#6. Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours so we won't sink, but will serve life which is stronger than death, and love which is stronger than hatred.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. We all have a monster somewhere inside us," Charlotte said. "Like I was saying about the kids. Sometimes it's aggressive, sometimes it finds other forms of attack, and other times it's a cowardly one.

Wildbow

#9. It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

Nancy Pickard

#10. I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

Sylvester Stallone

#11. For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

Iain Pears

#12. You stand in a dark room and grow a tree in your chest.
The color pink is your national anthem.
You have fled the burning city, but your pocket smolders.
He bats his eyelids and dust flies.
You are a well trying to quench its own thirst,
a tiger licking its bloody paw.

Karen Finneyfrock

#13. True forgiveness requires that we understand the negative actions of another.

Bell Hooks

#14. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

George Eliot