B4u Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them. — Mac DeMarco

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference. — Barack Obama

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture. — Autre Ne Veut

I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
-Imagination & Community — Marilynne Robinson

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message. — George W. Bush

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. — Karl Popper

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God." — Arnold Bennett

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little. — James Cromwell

The gospel by which individuals come to personal faith, and so to that radical transformation of life spoken of so often in the new Testament, is the personalizing of the larger challenge just mentioned: the call to every child, woman, and man to submit in faith to the lordship of the crucified and risen Jesus and so to become, through baptism and membership in the body of Christ, a living, breathing anticipation of the final new creation itself — N. T. Wright

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him. — Ira Remsen

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect. — Damien Hirst

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. — Confucius

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong — Wentworth Miller