Atanur Quotes & Sayings

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. — Paul Simon

Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind. — Paul Brunton

Yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're) — E. E. Cummings

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil

Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all. — Neil Gaiman

Think it's as though everyone has a small place inside themselves, maybe, a private bit that they keep to themselves. It's like a little fortress, where the most private part of you lives - maybe it's your soul, maybe just that bit that makes you yourself and not anyone else. — Diana Gabaldon

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener. — T Bone Burnett

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right. — Richard M. Nixon

straight ahead. She locked gazes — J.T. Langdon

Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. But Princeton had no smell. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd). — Louis MacNeice

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. — James Agee

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine. — Martin Luther