Ashplant 9 Quotes & Sayings

The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales' concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual. — Bruno Bettelheim

Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental; — Gunter Grass

An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor." — Saint Augustine

Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth. — Brian Setzer

Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility of teaching a course together looking at ways in which various literary works (plays, stories, novels) had been treated as operas, and how different themes emerged in the opera and in its original. One of the pairings we planned to use was Mann's great novella and Britten's opera. Unfortunately, the course was never taught, but the idea remained with me. — Philip Kitcher

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. — M.C. Escher

It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in. — Kate Reardon

Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence ... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life. — Augustine Of Hippo

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist. — John Green

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow

The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away. — Seamus Heaney

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. — Bill Murray

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody. — Carlos Santana

As long as there are games to play its not over — Alex Ferguson