“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James from Piers Plowman William Langland In… Read More
“May God protect us from guys who do the right thing.” – The Incredible Hulk’s sidekick Jim Wilson
“The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It’s amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.” – Frank… Read More
“I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I’m not dumb. I also know I’m not blonde.” – Dolly Parton
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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain
“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing.” … Read More
“When I looked at my old poems, I realized that I just didn’t like the person who wrote them.” – A.B. Jackson
“A considerable proportion, if not an outright majority, of the medical profession is of conservative cast of mind: politically, that is, not technically. Perhaps a close and continuous acquaintance with human nature… Read More
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell
“Twenty-five years ago I got fired. I had been employed as a thrice-a-week afternoon babysitter for the two-year-old daughter of a prosperous young matron, who used the free time to run errands… Read More
“Life is short and so, thank God, are most poems.” – Christina Patterson
“Truman Capote used to like to play a game he invented called International Daisy Chain, best attempted, he felt, when drunk. The chain was formed through the connection of people who had… Read More
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.” – Henry Miller
“Painters paint. Writers write. Composers compose. But who are the movers behind the movies? It’s easy to talk of Monet’s Waterlilies or Mahler’s Ninth, but does it make sense to call, say,… Read More
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” – William Blake, Proverbs of Hell, 1790
“Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and… Read More
“We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.” – D.H. Lawrence
“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”… Read More
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.” – Sigmund Freud on the Irish
“The English language brings out the best in the Irish. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter. They hurl it at the sky like a… Read More
“From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel OzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said — “Two vast… Read More
“The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.” – Fran Lebowitz
“It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized,… Read More
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” – George Washington
“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the… Read More
“Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.” – Confucius, Analects
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.” – Somerset Maugham Visit the website at www.everseradio.com and watch… Read More
“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead” – Nancy Mitford
“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All… Read More
“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.” – Phyllis McGinley
“In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.” … Read More
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” – Mark Twain
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new… Read More
“Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.” – Gary Allan
“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went… Read More
“If I have a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” – Erasmus
“May I help you find suspenders to match the piano? A tie to go with your tea? Some Mozart for your handbag? If the modern art of selling depends upon creating associations,… Read More
“Television has raised writing to a new low.” – Samuel Goldwyn
“It began as a solution to that All-American holiday problem — what to do with the leftover turkey. But executives at C.A. Swanson & Sons weren’t talking about just the remainders of… Read More
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” – Samuel Johnson
“If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison,… Read More
“How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn’t live there?” – Stephen Wright
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would… Read More
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Throwing away the alarm clock my father always said, ‘early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.’ It was lights out at 8PM in our house… Read More
Iris Murdoch
“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”… Read More
“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” – Steve Almond
“A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts… Read More
“In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.” – W.B. Prescott
“In 1939, the story goes, F Scott Fitzgerald earned $33 from royalties on all his books. Those included This Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, and The Great Gatsby. The great… Read More
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