Axtonsupps Quotes & Sayings

We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best. — Leontyne Price

The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal. — Richard Brautigan

I'm going to kiss you as long and as often as I like, and you're not to utter a word of protest. — Lisa Kleypas

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. — John Mayer

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people ... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples. — Zhou Enlai

Too many companies - and individuals - are befuddled by delusion when it comes to identifying their authentic strengths and projecting those strengths through their brand. It's as if they live in Opposite Land. If their service is wretched, they tell people that they are great at service. If they are selling a mediocre car, they expound on its hip sportiness. Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility. It's a lose-lose proposition. In order to hunt down and accurately tag authenticity, we must first pop the balloon of self-delusion. — Tom Hayes

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy. — Randa Haines

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. — Thomas Traherne

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb

You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not ask any comer whether he has a name but whether he has an affliction. — Victor Hugo

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. — David Gerrold

He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool. — George R R Martin

I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity. — Helder Camara

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. — Oliver Goldsmith