Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

Angels, we have grown apart.

David Hogan

Do people want a concrete-lined river like in Los Angeles or a nice river with trees and vegetation? A critical habitat designation means we'd get the nice trees and vegetation.

Dolly Parton

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

Desmond Morris

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Desmond Morris

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Della Reese

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

Della Reese

I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

Debbie Macomber

God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle

Anderson Cooper

Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

T. S. Eliot

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Stephane Mallarme

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Rumi

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

Pablo Neruda

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

Mark Strand

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Jerry Saltz

Scandal is only human.

Nico Tortorella

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

Mary McCarthy

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.