Armitt Museum Quotes & Sayings

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling. — Marlon James

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy. — W.B.Yeats

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. — Jerry Leiber

So, Orion Dude, you're an alien?" Stu said, finding it all very funny now.
"Hmm. If you're coming to my planet, Stu, actually you're the alien! As for Titan... we're all aliens," Orion replied. — Ruth Watson-Morris

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it. — Paul Washer

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective. — Ted Dekker

When strength doesn't work, Zeus said, trickery might. — Rick Riordan

Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance. — Charles Spurgeon

overconfident individuals achieved higher social status, respect, and influence in groups. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there! — Stephen Bruner

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one. — Gloria Steinem

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau

The Doors were never that good as musicians. — Ray Manzarek