Arvin Russell Quotes & Sayings

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett

With positive mind-set, you can graciously withstand the uncertainties of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things. — Amit Bhatia

She had trouble simply enjoying and letting be. She liked to correct and make right. — Harlan Coben

No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now! — Tricia Cunningham

There is one-and only one-way to end the violence in Latin America. There is one-and only one-way to terminate the drug gangs. That way is by legalizing drugs. Legalizing drugs today would put an immediate end to the drug gangs and the drug-war violence. — Jacob G. Hornberger

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something, — Sylvia A. Earle

Often we blame the breed, but in my opinion, it's not the breed, it's the owner. The owner has to be the pack leader and provide exercise, discipline, then affection. If you do that, you'll have a sweet, loving, and balanced dog - no matter what breed! — Cesar Millan

In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent, not recognized subconsciously and at once, is a very subtle operation of the mind. And he failed. It was gone before he could properly seize or name it. Approximate description, even, seems to have been difficult, for it was unlike any smell he knew. Acrid rather, not unlike the odor of a lion, he thinks, yet softer and not wholly unpleasing, with something almost sweet in it that reminded him of the scent of decaying garden leaves, earth, and the myriad, nameless perfumes that make up the odor of a big forest. Yet the 'odor of lions' is the phrase with which he usually sums it all up.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood

Love is dangerous and often violent in the sense that it can radically alter us at a moment's notice. — Roberto Montes

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them. — Helen Keller

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET. — Val Kilmer

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. - LU XUN — Jacqueline Novogratz

Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order. — John Brunner