Ambrosetti Club Quotes & Sayings

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated earth? Nay, are there not moods which shall find no expression unless there be men who dare to mix heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland together, or even to set the heads of beasts to the bodies of men, or to thrust the souls of men into the heart of rocks? Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.
(A Teller of Tales) — W.B.Yeats

I dreamed of setting it up out here in front of where I am sitting now, on the tripod that I would have ordered too, and starting, taking my time, to focus on a curling line of water, a piece of the world indifferent to the fact that there is language, that there are names to describe things, and grammar and verbs. My eye, solitary, filled with its own history, is desperate to evade, erase, forget; it is watching now, watching fiercely, like a scientist looking for a cure, deciding for some days to forget about words, to know at last that the words for colours, the blue-grey-green of the sea, the whiteness of the waves, will not work against thefullness of watching the rich chaos they yield and carry. — Colm Toibin

You are angry, and you watch it. You are not just angry, a new element is introduced into it: you are watching it. And the miracle is that if you can watch anger, the anger disappears without being repressed. — Rajneesh

Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now. — Lou Gaglia

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends. — James Baker

For a writer, only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. — Joseph Brodsky

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties. — Mark Millar

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. — Martha Plimpton

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra. — Grandmaster Flash

Laughter is a gift from God. When we refuse to accept it, it makes Him want to take it back. Like the unicorns. — John Acuff

My biggest fear in life is fear. — Sheryl Lee