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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
Al AlvarezAl Alvarez It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Ben CarsonBen Carson I learned how to pass when I was real young. That’s one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.
Kevin DurantKevin Durant The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
Alan Dean FosterAlan Dean Foster I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
Agnes VardaAgnes Varda The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I’m saying and are going to buy into what I’m doing. Not because it’s the new thing of the moment, but because it’s genuine emotion. Its how I feel. This is how I articulate the world.
Jay-ZJay-Z Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo MachiavelliNiccolo Machiavelli To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
PlotinusPlotinus