Ascham Court Quotes & Sayings

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Paint in blue and black ... sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... — John Geddes

The more negative emotion there is in a story, the heavier and more impenetrable it becomes. — Eckhart Tolle

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face:
Four ways in court to win man's grace. — Roger Ascham

Talking to a stranger because it's the only safe kind of talking you can do — John Green

If you work hard and get help from good friends, together you can overcome almost any challenge, no matter how great. — Mike Massimino

All things considered, I've learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom the case, but in conversation writers are inclined to waste an inordinate amount of time either bragging or bellyaching about reviews and royalties, complaining about their publishers, or dissing other authors. Painters, being equally insecure, can likewise come across as boring and bitchy
it's tough being creative in a materialistic society
but since they labor not in vineyards of verbiage but upon ice floes of visual images, they tend to function with fewer inhibitions than the wordsmiths when it comes to vocally exploring and expressing ideas. Since no one judges their speech, comparing it to their written work, they don't feel so acutely the weight of language. — Tom Robbins

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30. — Gail Sheehy

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. — Moshe Feldenkrais

An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart ...
Harry's eyes rolled up into his head. He couldn't see. He was drowning in cold. There was a rushing in his ears as though of water. He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder ...
And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams. He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn't ... a thick white fog was swirling around him, inside him - — J.K. Rowling

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even rocket science ain't rocket science nowadays. Not compared to negotiating a relationship anyway. Now why don't they teach you the equations for THAT at college eh? "Oh, just close your eyes, and aim in the general direction. If you get into trouble just press this button which will lower a bottle of The Macallan into your hand and eject your brain clean out of your skull. You'll parachute safely back to earth and definitely will not end up in a screaming mass of smoking hot twisted metal on a hillside somewhere. — Andre The BFG

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — Jack Horner

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you. — Lauren Zimmerman