Dawn Corrigan > Dawn's Quotes

“Black lives matter.”
― Alicia Garza

“I did all that with my little hatchet.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Being a grown-up is a joy that has never lost its shine.”
― Daniel M. Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“I want bad girls to win.”
― Mark Strand

“to be cool,
decisive,
precise,
yes,
while the barn door hits you in the face”
― Frank O'Hara

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
― David Hume

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson, Papers of Adlai Stevenson

“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”
― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.”
― Georg Buchner

“I can't wait to collapse
into perfection”
― Sundin Richards

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Island

Wave of sorrow,
Do not drown me now:

I see the island
Still ahead somehow.

I see the island
And its sands are fair:

Wave of sorrow,
Take me there.”
― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

“I awoke in a different
place my wounds all
healed”
― Sundin Richards, The Hurricane Lamp

“It is a pity that those whose good graces we long for are always dead.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Character is fate.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.”
― Stefan Zweig

“Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters