Avernotown Quotes & Sayings

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can. — G.K. Chesterton

History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page — George Gordon Byron

It is opposition that makes us productive. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. - TWYLA THARP — Daniel H. Pink

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed? — Honore De Balzac

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise. — Socrates

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Dalai Lama XIV

My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal. — N.R. Walker

The practical value of succes depends not a little on the way you look at it. — Joseph Conrad

Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feeling
in a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman. — Will Durant

Never give in, never give in, never give in. — Winston Churchill

I'm going to take each day and each thing and each gig as it comes at me. — James Bay