"I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors......I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time."

-- Helen Simonson

#Mistake Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.”

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber
“I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.”
“I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.”
“I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.”
“Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.”
“Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.”
“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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