"Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times"

-- Marianne Moore

#Ties Quotes #Victory Quotes #Knots Quotes

“All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.”
“For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!”

Source : "Eddie Spaghetti! The Story Behind Mike Lange-isms". KDKA.com, May 20, 2008.
“To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.”
“And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.”
“A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.”
“I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.”
“I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.”

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