Artethys Quotes & Sayings

Though most cultural observers hadn't noticed it yet, everything was now in place for "Hallelujah" to sweep through the pop landscape. It was a song that had multiple strong, emotional connections with millions of listeners. Its mood was both fixed and malleable, universal and specific. It was familiar enough to resonate, obscure enough to remain cool. Though its most celebrated performer was gone forever, its mysterious creator had come back to the spotlight just in time.
After 2001, whether it signified an individual's solitude (human or monster or otherwise) or a population in mourning, "Hallelujah" - now far removed from Leonard Cohen's initial," rather joyous" intent - was established as the definitive representation of sadness for a new generation. — Alan Light

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom. — Warren Buffett

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy. — Michelle Forbes

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill — John Hartford

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. — Tony Robbins

There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life. — Jeremiah Wright

If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything. — Niels Bohr

What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it. — Chris Christie

My stomach turned and burned with the acid of failure — Heidi L. Ames

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom — M. Scott Peck

Be with people for whom your empty pocket does not matter. — Pratik Akkawar

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. — Tennessee Williams