Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
C. K. WILLIAMS My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a diff...
C. K. WILLIAMS When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens ...
C. K. WILLIAMS I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people&...
C. K. WILLIAMS I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
C. K. WILLIAMS A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
C. K. WILLIAMS I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't ...
C. K. WILLIAMS One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a...
C. K. WILLIAMS Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
C. K. WILLIAMS morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.
C K WILLIAMS I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've s...
LOUIS C. K. When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need th...
LOUIS C. K. Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to...
LOUIS C. K. You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, m...
LOUIS C. K. Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about othe...
LOUIS C. K. It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.
LOUIS C. K. You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. T...
LOUIS C. K. Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.
LOUIS C. K. All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ...
LOUIS C. K. If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the secon...
LOUIS C. K. I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over ...
LOUIS C. K. Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
LOUIS C. K. The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and faken...
LOUIS C. K. If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches...
LOUIS C. K. When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort ...
LOUIS C. K. I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.
LOUIS C. K. When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometime...
LOUIS C. K. There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'...
LOUIS C. K. There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a t...
LOUIS C. K. I like all ladies of all different ages.
LOUIS C. K. Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.
LOUIS C. K. The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, ...
LOUIS C. K. I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying i...
LOUIS C. K. Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and y...
LOUIS C. K. The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.
LOUIS C. K. Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, an...
LOUIS C. K. Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
LOUIS C. K. I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying ...
LOUIS C. K. I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind...
LOUIS C. K. I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there mi...
LOUIS C. K. My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, t...
LOUIS C. K. To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.
LOUIS C. K. Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it...
LOUIS C. K. If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.
LOUIS C. K. To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection...
LOUIS C. K. A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
LOUIS C. K. I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby...
LOUIS C. K. There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, ...
LOUIS C. K. I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that p...
LOUIS C. K. I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laug...
LOUIS C. K. Perception is created and twisted so quickly.
LOUIS C. K. America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
LOUIS C. K. Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you ha...
LOUIS C. K. Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
LOUIS C. K. It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
LOUIS C. K. To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.
LOUIS C. K. You need to develop the ability to just be yourself and not be doing something, that's what the phon...
LOUIS C. K. My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack...
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, a...
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS Children entering school today without basic reading knowledge are at risk of long term failure.
CARMELITA K. WILLIAMS In our quest to achieve success, let us leave no child behind.
CARMELITA K. WILLIAMS When it comes to reading, parents can ensure that their children's literacy rights are honored! Talk...
CARMELITA K. WILLIAMS Adolescents need more support! We have long supported early childhood literacy learning and educatio...
CARMELITA K. WILLIAMS I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me ...
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that...
GEORGE C. WILLIAMS Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the...
GEORGE C. WILLIAMS The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making pers...
GEORGE C. WILLIAMS Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything s...
GEORGE C. WILLIAMS The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt a...
GEORGE C. WILLIAMS The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
GEORGE C. WILLIAMS A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K. What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C. The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C. Pink is a beautiful color, because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at twilight and in the...
C. JOYBELL C. The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to hap...
C C COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest ma...
C C COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. COLTON There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C. There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and...
C. JOYBELL C. The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider...
C. JOYBELL C. Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We ...
C. JOYBELL C. What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C. I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,...
C. JOYBELL C. Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C. When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C. Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C. I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C. For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of ...
C. JOYBELL C. Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!
C. JOYBELL C. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C. You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to fi...
C. JOYBELL C. It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people...
C. JOYBELL C. Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs t...
C. JOYBELL C. I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th...
C. JOYBELL C. If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned...
C. JOYBELL C. In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am alr...
C. JOYBELL C. She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew...
C. JOYBELL C. They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of t...
C. JOYBELL C. You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, al...
C. JOYBELL C. We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte...
C. JOYBELL C. You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have...
C. JOYBELL C. I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage cer...
C. JOYBELL C. You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that...
C. JOYBELL C. A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside you...
C. JOYBELL C. People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't ...
C. JOYBELL C. Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.
C. JOYBELL C. The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wr...
C. JOYBELL C. Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that so...
C. JOYBELL C. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and eve...
C. JOYBELL C. Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something...
C. JOYBELL C. The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
C. JOYBELL C. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never...
C. JOYBELL C. Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the...
C. JOYBELL C. The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The onl...
C. JOYBELL C. I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love...
C. JOYBELL C. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So l...
C. JOYBELL C. I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in ...
C. JOYBELL C. When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the min...
C. JOYBELL C. Don’t hate people who show you what’s wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true f...
C. JOYBELL C. There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they'r...
C. JOYBELL C. I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think...
C. JOYBELL C. Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like ...
C. JOYBELL C. Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the s...
C. JOYBELL C. I cannot have a man who is afraid of everything, I don't have the time to soothe insecurities and fe...
C. JOYBELL C. Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious ...
C. JOYBELL C. I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the mos...
C. JOYBELL C. When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the o...
C. JOYBELL C. There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They ...
C. JOYBELL C. Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, cri...
C. JOYBELL C. The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are wit...
C. JOYBELL C. I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing...
C. JOYBELL C. The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore...
C. JOYBELL C. No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.
C. JOYBELL C. And I told him, I said: "One day you're going to miss the subway because it's not going to come. One...
C. JOYBELL C. Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people canno...
C. JOYBELL C. Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.
C. C. MEHTA Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in...
C. JOYBELL C. The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the fac...
C. JOYBELL C. The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in ...
C. JOYBELL C. People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the ti...
C. JOYBELL C. The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the lov...
C. JOYBELL C. There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
C. C. PHELPS I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
C. JOYBELL C. The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C. Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with th...
C. JOYBELL C. Peace is the number one beautiful ornament you can wear, I really believe that. They say you should ...
C. JOYBELL C. Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful...
C. JOYBELL C. I am a person. I am not always happy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; sometimes I feel sad, sometimes ...
C. JOYBELL C. A bitch always smokes." He looks back at Lucy. "A bitch is the opposite of a whore. A bitch doesn't ...
C. JOYBELL C. Acceptance" is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death th...
C. JOYBELL C. Las personas más infelices en este mundo, son aquellas a las que más les importa la opinión de ot...
C. JOYBELL C. Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might re...
C. JOYBELL C. I think the reason why people's relationships fail, really, is due to the fact that people are alway...
C. JOYBELL C. I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake on...
C. JOYBELL C. The reason why human beings fail to create real connections with others, is due to the fact that the...
C. JOYBELL C. I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend ...
C. JOYBELL C. Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.
C. JOYBELL C. What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be ...
C. JOYBELL C. A fine giornata ci sono poche persone intorno a voi che vogliono veramente vedervi sereni, felici e ...
C. JOYBELL C. Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that never became yours!...
C. JOYBELL C. Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ...
C. JOYBELL C. Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely re...
C. JOYBELL C. Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be plac...
C. JOYBELL C. Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty ...
C. JOYBELL C. I really feel sorry for the many men who are surrounded by people who flatter them all the time. In ...
C. JOYBELL C. At the end of the day, there are very few people around you who truly want to see you peaceful, happ...
C. JOYBELL C. No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That...
C. JOYBELL C. You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they lo...
C. JOYBELL C. I believe in women uplifting other women. The only thing that makes our gender weaker, is the fact t...
C. JOYBELL C. I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get ...
C. JOYBELL C. My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I...
C. JOYBELL C. Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It's never too l...
C. JOYBELL C. ‎"You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things." "Why not?" "Because if you were...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for ...
C. JOYBELL C. God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far b...
C. JOYBELL C. It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same...
C. JOYBELL C. It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall ...
C. JOYBELL C. I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil dow...
C. JOYBELL C. Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial ...
C. JOYBELL C. A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturall...
C. JOYBELL C. I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should strok...
C. JOYBELL C. The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, the...
C. JOYBELL C. Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that i...
C. JOYBELL C. Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock...
C. JOYBELL C. Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a ma...
C. JOYBELL C. University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you ...
C. JOYBELL C. The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need t...
C. JOYBELL C. Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether yo...
C. JOYBELL C.