Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ashbery

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

John Ashbery

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night....

John Ashbery

But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now, Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

John Ashbery

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

John Ashbery

Will occur as time grows more open about it.

John Ashbery

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

John Ashbery

We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories soon turn to poison And only oblivion remains in season.

John Ashbery

The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

Joey Harrington

I'm lucky - we're all lucky - to be playing a game for a living.

Joey Ramone

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

Joe Namath

Football is a team game. So is life.

Jodi Picoult

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Jodi Picoult

There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would leave you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

Jodi Picoult

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

Jodi Picoult

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Jodi Picoult

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Jodi Picoult

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Jodi Picoult

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

Jodi Picoult

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Jodi Picoult

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

John Graves

You notice. And noticing, you live.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

John Greenleaf Whittier

We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

John Green

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

John Green

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

John Green

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

John Green

You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

John Green

Truth resists simplicity.

John Green

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Cassandra Clare

Your life is yours to live as you choose.

Cassandra Clare

Every life is finite, Will.

Cassandra Clare

I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.