Sylvia Plath Famous Quotes



"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."


Sylvia Plath Quotations






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"I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class.
David Mohler

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton

"First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is only the first step that is difficult.
Marie De VichyChaconne

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
Charles L Allen

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
Barbara Garrison

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
Denis Diderot

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey

"Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. 'I guess you're not an afictionado',' she said. Poor Marta. For all her reading, she doesn't even know the right word."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts