Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI’m somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
More Gary Clark, Jr. Quotes
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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE -
All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
ALAIN DE BOTTON -
Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST -
It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
DUKE ELLINGTON -
The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they’re deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI -
I could have danced all night!
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Touch you with no skin only with my eyes speak with no words only with my mind.
A.J XANDER -
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORK -
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
AHDAF SOUEIF -
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
ALAN BENNETT -
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
JON KABAT-ZINN -
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
KELLY CLARKSON -
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
WILLIAM JAMES