Cate Marvin Quotes
I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
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To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
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No dream is ever to big.
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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.
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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
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Never let anyone define who you are.
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That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
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Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
