There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name... Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and come and get us. Number four: if I ever see anyone ...
Even in rainier areas, where dust is less inexorable and submits to brooms and rags, it is generally detested, because dust is not organized and is therefore considered aesthetically bankrupt. Our light is not kind to faint diffuse spreading things. ...
We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for the most of it, the fiction works. We skim acro...
Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are ...
There is a time sometime, and a place where in the perfect stillness of the evening within the sunset serenity we unite in the glow... Blissful paradise divinity, brilliancy glassy deepness, shallowness slow and smooth... We forever are eternal whole...
People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way.
No iron is so strong that it cannot be melted down, and no business so dirty that can be fixed with money.
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Very often we write down a sentence then another what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Bring Down The Walls I will bring down the walls that surround me today. I will no longer be kept quiet Meek enough to drown today....
I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.
it's good for you to write down your thoughts. It's therapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think about life.
The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?