Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Quote by Don Marquis
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Don Marquis Quotes
- Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
- If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
- A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Best Quotes
- Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
- We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.
- I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
- Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
- I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
- Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
- It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
- I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?
- When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.
- People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.