3and3quarters Quotes & Sayings

I don't miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. — Neil Gaiman

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen

I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge. — Richard Louv

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon

You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not. — Robert De Castella

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. — Camille Paglia

Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed. — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon Of Tara

I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice. — Adrian Tomine

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. — James Russell Lowell

Crisis sells well. — Umberto Eco

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required. — Michel Faber

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country. — Malgorzata Szumowska

What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing - except his sin - to His salvation, not even his faith. — Steven J. Lawson

Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone. — Brigham Young

But then sometimes you make a catastrophic mistake, you think I am going to kill myself because the sculpture is ruined, but in the end it come out more incredible than had you not made the mistake. This is why I love the rocks. When I sculpt with clay, it feel like cheating. It is too easy. It has no will of its own. The rocks are formidable. They stand up to you. It is a fair fight. Sometimes you win. Sometimes they win. Sometimes when they win, you win. — Jandy Nelson