quotes about Harpies

“Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”

“In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.”

“Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.”

“My reputation will always precede me to the day I die. For some people, that probably can't be quickly enough.”

Source : "Barton: Jail Hell has saved me" by Simon Bird, www.mirror.co.uk. October 23, 2008.

“Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

“Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and textual critics to go back and verify that the Bible we have in our possession today is the same Bible that the early church possessed 2,000 years ago.”

“I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.”

“Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.”

“I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.”

Source : "Moderate Dems coy on immigration" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. January 31, 2013.

“I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.”