Avecina Oakleaf Quotes & Sayings

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. — Man Ray

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand. — Thomas Hobbes

Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense ... In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine. — Hamid Drake

Many great failures lead to the ultimate success — Miguel El Portugues

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it. — Fran Kranz

A marriage can go wrong at any time. — Trinny Woodall

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust. — Aristotle.

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. — Francis Parkman

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on I am not too sure. — H.L. Mencken

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well. — Deborah Meyler

Did you mean it ... that if Victor did tell ... that you'd ... " I couldn't finish. I couldn't bring myself to say the words have him killed.
"I don't have much influence in the upper levels of Moroi royalty, but I have plenty among the guardians who handle the dirty work in our world."
"You didn't answer the question. If you'd really do it."
"I'd do a lot of things to protect you, Roza. — Richelle Mead

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb