Allynn Smith Quotes & Sayings

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. — David Hockney

Bad news, Ringo" said Cole. "We're all going to die — Maggie Stiefvater

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. — Thomas Hardy

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away. — Stuart Appleby

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true. — Eugene Cernan

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland. — Kenny Cunningham

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion. — Alexander Hamilton

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.' — Sarah Snook

We humans are obsessed with lights ... Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky. — Diane Ackerman

The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,
the greater peace. — Elisabeth Elliot

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. — Ursula Andress

Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental. — Susann Cokal

How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history. — Frank Herbert