Afternow Quotes & Sayings

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. — Oscar Wilde

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously. — Tom Peters

Hat came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin.. — Catherynne M Valente

Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. — David Foster Wallace

You want to know as much information as possible because it helps you make more informed decisions, but that's not always possible. There are a lot of different factors surrounding it. — Howard Charles

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. — Max Von Sydow

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be. — Claire McCaskill

Certain art hungers for context. — Amanda Palmer

I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy. — Bow Wow

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion. — Suzanne Collins

The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven ... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below. — Charles Spurgeon