Adornd Quotes & Sayings

Marriage and Money — William Hjortsberg

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection — Michelangelo

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. — Terence McKenna

The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you — Goswami Kriyananda

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Every generation, including mine, has to find their own heroes. — Sylvester Stallone

Oh, why don't we have the night off? ... D'you know ... I think I'm feeling a bit ... Rebellious. — J.K. Rowling

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now. — Galway Kinnell

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting. — Xavier Dolan