Arcadyan Quotes & Sayings

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself? — Oscar Wilde

[Spade] scowled at Gutman and burst out irritably: Jesus God! is this the first thing you guys ever stole? You're a fine lot of lollipops! What are you going to do next
get down and pray? — Dashiell Hammett

Foolish mistakes don't make you dumb. Show your intelligence by changing your outcome. — Annette Whitaker-Moss

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Men and women who live in America ... have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document. — David O. McKay

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke. — Yoko Ono

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other. — Kris Allen

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the "Nation," it's time for all of us to sit up and worry. — Arundhati Roy

The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth
all save this
come and go with us through life; again and again in riper years we experience, under a new stimulus, what we thought had been finally left behind, the authentic impulse to action, the renewal of power and its concentration on a new object; again and again a new truth is revealed to us in whose light all our previous knowledge must be rearranged. — Evelyn Waugh

Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody. — Dorothy Baker

To create happiness all around, be loving to all. — Debasish Mridha

Right time, right place, right moment. — Truth Devour

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line. — Lena Dunham