A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEINEven now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
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They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.
RINGO STARR -
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZ -
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
HELEN KELLER -
[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
BILLY CRYSTAL -
It is hard to not feel broken when it is always quiet enough to hear your pieces rattle.
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON -
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY -
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Even in your darkest moments, you’ll think of something that’ll crack you up.
BRAD PAISLEY -
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL -
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE -
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
BILL CRAWFORD -
The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.
BENVENUTO CELLINI -
Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing “Joseph’s Lullaby.”
BART MILLARD -
This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I’d stopped writing poetry – I mean, I went about a decade where I wrote very little poetry and I thought it was because I was doing a weekly blog.
ACHY OBEJAS