Bagramian Banquet Quotes & Sayings

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable. — George Edward Woodberry

I winced. I just said "creamed." I felt so deprived and miserably virginal. — Hayden Thorne

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. — Tennessee Williams

There were so many who did wish to speak. For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings of her course. — Anonymous

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn. — Ed Begley Jr.

Oh, darlin', it has nothing to do with how often you mention him. It's the moony way you do it. — Erik Bundy

Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits anyone who, answering to his vocation and fulfilling it, exerts himself within history; only the man who sacrifices every gift and talent escapes: released from his humanity, he may lodge himself in Being. ( ... ) One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse. — Emil Cioran

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it. — Charlie Haden

How in the world
when what is such knowledge but suffering? — Henry James