Wising Quotes

#1. Glittering tinsel,
lights, glass balls, and candy canes
dangle from pine trees.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Pauline Kael

#3. Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Sherry Argov

#4. [Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

William S. Burroughs

#5. I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.

E. M. Forster

#7. He rewarded her flower with a twitch of a smile, and she began to relax. This was the Gavril she knew.

Kelley Armstrong

#8. The change of the word does not alter the matter

Thomas More

#9. Lick your lips, Griet."
I licked my lips.
"Leave your mouth open."
I was so surprised by this request that my mouth remained open of its own will. I blinked back tears. Virtuous women did not open their mouths in paintings.

Tracy Chevalier

#10. People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life.

Lama Surya Das

#11. How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how ... If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

William, Saroyan