Allumettes Archivist Quotes & Sayings

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence. — Robin Gibb

One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again. — Philippa Gregory

Stop, poor sinner, stop and think Before you further go, No longer sport upon the brink Of everlasting woe." '"Exactly! — Emily Bronte

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours. — Stephen King

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. — Michael J. Fox

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were. — John McLaughlin

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing. — Elizabeth Bibesco

I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life. — George W. Bush

Consciousness is clear; it reflects colors of the vessel. — Debasish Mridha

Today is important only in light of what we do for God. — David Jeremiah

Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down. — Callum McDougall

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy. — Mark Twain

That sentence is: "Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments - especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life. — Agnes Smedley

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson