"As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Fate Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Poets play with words to keep themselves sane”
“You don't choose who you love.”
“There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in English in the United States is anything but a humanist. So all poets, including myself, seem to be under that umbrella. We just don't have Rush Limbaugh poets, Ann Coulter poets.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
“Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.”
“Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.”
“It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
“For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.”

Source : "Breitbart: I Released Rep. Weiner Photos for 'Vindication'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2011.

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