...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been...
JOHN J. GEDDES ...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail...
JOHN GEDDES ...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude ...
JOHN GEDDES December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...
JOHN GEDDES burnt by the sun
of your mouth,
I’m unable to speak
or paint you with words
JOHN GEDDES ...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give a...
JOHN GEDDES ... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you wit...
JOHN GEDDES you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...
JOHN GEDDES ...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
JOHN GEDDES ...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you s...
JOHN GEDDES ...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...
JOHN GEDDES ...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach i...
JOHN GEDDES ...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...
JOHN GEDDES ...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of...
JOHN GEDDES ...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it ...
JOHN GEDDES ...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own fee...
JOHN GEDDES ...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks...
JOHN GEDDES ...The heart mourns people and places and returns to them in dreams...
JOHN GEDDES ...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart th...
JOHN GEDDES ...who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the...
JOHN GEDDES ... God is not a Sunday plumber - he's always available...
JOHN GEDDES You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth
JOHN GEDDES ...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows ow...
JOHN GEDDES ...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...
JOHN GEDDES ...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean c...
JOHN GEDDES Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti...
JOHN GEDDES ...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - c...
JOHN GEDDES ...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...
JOHN GEDDES In the baby’s room

The city lights are
Milky
In the curtains…
Breath ...
JOHN GEDDES ...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and...
JOHN GEDDES ...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...
JOHN GEDDES ...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...
JOHN GEDDES ...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
JOHN GEDDES ...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite a...
JOHN GEDDES ...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape f...
JOHN GEDDES ...you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star...
JOHN GEDDES ...skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...
JOHN GEDDES ...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it...
JOHN GEDDES ...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping thos...
JOHN GEDDES the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have ...
JOHN GEDDES ...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how ...
JOHN GEDDES ...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...
JOHN GEDDES ...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...
JOHN GEDDES ...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your p...
JOHN GEDDES ...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill yo...
JOHN GEDDES ...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...
JOHN GEDDES ...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you ask...
JOHN GEDDES ...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a...
JOHN GEDDES ...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake...
JOHN GEDDES ...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and...
JOHN GEDDES ...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...
JOHN GEDDES ...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul...
JOHN GEDDES ...the words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche...
JOHN GEDDES ...my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's...
JOHN GEDDES ...when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...
JOHN GEDDES ...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from the...
JOHN GEDDES ...true love is my religion...
JOHN GEDDES ...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people...
JOHN GEDDES ...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
JOHN GEDDES ...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..
JOHN GEDDES ...in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...
JOHN GEDDES ... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...
JOHN GEDDES ...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest...
JOHN GEDDES ...I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me...
JOHN GEDDES ...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...
JOHN GEDDES ....you were a jumble of broken bits of glass the sun caught and stained my soul with your colors......
JOHN GEDDES ...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer li...
JOHN GEDDES ...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you...
JOHN GEDDES ...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...
JOHN GEDDES ...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combusti...
JOHN GEDDES ...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language ...
JOHN GEDDES ...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing th...
JOHN GEDDES ...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...
JOHN GEDDES ...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...
JOHN GEDDES ...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...
JOHN GEDDES ...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrust...
JOHN GEDDES ...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...
JOHN GEDDES ...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevita...
JOHN GEDDES ...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that...
JOHN GEDDES ...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
JOHN GEDDES ...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character...
JOHN GEDDES ...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...
JOHN GEDDES ...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- resp...
JOHN GEDDES ...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my wo...
JOHN GEDDES ...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles ...
JOHN GEDDES ...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window s...
JOHN GEDDES ...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of chu...
JOHN GEDDES Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ...
PATRICK GEDDES Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
PATRICK GEDDES We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones inde...
ANGUS GEDDES Fletcher has indicated he wants to focus on other divisions.
ANGUS GEDDES What we've seen last night is a lot of hot air coming out...it may go on for a number of weeks but i...
ANGUS GEDDES It's caused serious disruption to oil refining and production capacity in the Louisiana region. Ther...
ANGUS GEDDES The appetite for infrastructure type of investments in Australia has been enormous in the last five ...
ANGUS GEDDES A positive, was their cost-to-income ratio. There has definitely been some progress on costs.
ANGUS GEDDES In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, o...
GEDDES MACGREGOR The problem with technology is we can't see a bottom. The dilemma right now is there is no leadershi...
ANNETTE GEDDES I think the next move by the Fed will be to take a neutral stance. I think the economy is probably s...
ANNETTE GEDDES The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that he...
MEIA GEDDES Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush ...
MEIA GEDDES It is really going to have a chilling (effect), but that's what the company appears to be after.
CLAIRE GEDDES I e-mailed Nick [McCarthy] asking how this could have happened and he wrote back: 'Relentless hooks!...
CHRIS GEDDES They had some pin-point accuracy and good grief, that goal over Robert — nothing he could do.
DOYLE GEDDES As the department head responsible for this report, I realize that we handled this file improperly. ...
GREG GEDDES It's a great win for us, but it also cost us.
DOYLE GEDDES They had some pin-point accuracy and good grief, that goal over Robert — nothing he could do.
DOYLE GEDDES We were deep on them often, but we didn't create many on-net looks at all. But, that's a great Alta ...
DOYLE GEDDES Ultimately, we were very happy with the second half.
DOYLE GEDDES She had one of the best games of any of the girls out there today.
DOYLE GEDDES Our team needed this. We needed a break-out game, so it was good therapy for us. It helped restore s...
DOYLE GEDDES We were frustrated at the half, but the second half made up for it.
DOYLE GEDDES We just didn't finish. If we finish, this game isn't close.
DOYLE GEDDES We were staying in this smart apartment complex which we thought was this little artistic community....
CHRIS GEDDES With her unmistakable pout and jutting breasts Brigitte Bardot was more than just a goddess. For a w...
DIANA GEDDES The window counter considered numbers often. How many tons of air did the universe contain, for inst...
MEIA GEDDES If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and...
MEIA GEDDES There have been interest. I would say, based on how it has been communicated, (the volume of interes...
DAVID GEDDES We aren't a bit surprised. We never expected them to change their position. We just had to ask for r...
CLAIRE GEDDES My apologies for the late clarification of this agreement.
GREG GEDDES The threat of a strike is certainly going to raise a lot of anxiety for Ottawa residents.
GREG GEDDES There's a real cost to taxpayers if those plans are introduced.
GREG GEDDES It is in plunging into the stream of life itself and entering into the deepest involvement with the ...
GEDDES MACGREGOR Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucum...
MEIA GEDDES We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze...
SIR ERIC GEDDES In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerog...
JOHN J. INGALLS In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evid...
JOHN J. SIRICA Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor...
JOHN J. BERNET A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable le...
JOHN J. PERSHING In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Au...
JOHN J. SWEENEY From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization ...
JOHN J. SWEENEY Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we ...
JOHN J. EMERICK You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
JOHN J. PLOMP The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!
JOHN J. PERSHING You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers
JOHN J. PLOMP The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.
JOHN J. PLOMP Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that th...
JOHN J. SWEENEY rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.
JOHN J. MCCLOY In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy ...
JOHN J. SWEENEY An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president...
JOHN J. SIRICA For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the succes...
JOHN J. SWEENEY At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill eff...
JOHN J. RATEY Politics is my business and I make it pay
JOHN J. MAHON My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT