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Aging1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967American music1 quote
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic. — James Weldon Johnson · 1930Answers1 quote
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Black experience1 quote
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes... I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1928Creative impulse1 quote
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Dreams1 quote
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Experiencing things1 quote
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Facts1 quote
Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods. — Chuck Todd · 2017Falling in love1 quote
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — John Green · 2012Insanity1 quote
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. — Rita Mae Brown · 1983Love1 quote
Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Lying and politics1 quote
Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods. — Chuck Todd · 2017Metaphor, analogy and simile1 quote
If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. — John Green · 2005Middle age1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Nature of God1 quote
Gods always behave like the people who make them. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1938Nature of love1 quote
Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Opposites attract1 quote
If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. — John Green · 2005Perception vs. reality1 quote
There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space. — John Archibald Wheeler · 1960Power of love1 quote
Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Questions1 quote
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Sadness1 quote
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937School of life1 quote
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Shrinking horizons1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Stories1 quote
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942The human condition1 quote
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937The road not taken1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Truth and lies1 quote
Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods. — Chuck Todd · 2017Writing1 quote
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942