Ballon D'or 2014 Quotes & Sayings

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

What an author shapes into a coherent argument, or weaves into a story, is always much more interesting than the thought process behind it. — Rob Parnell

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it. — Nathanael West

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence. — C.S. Lewis

A lot of people lounge by pools in L.A., but few of them are truly immortal, no matter how hard they pretend with plastic surgery and exercise. Doyle was truly immortal and had been for over a thousand years. A thousand years of wars, assassinations, and political intrigue, and he'd been reduced to being eye candy in a thong bathing suit by the pool of the rich and famous. — Laurell K. Hamilton

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects)- a material vestigate of its subject in a way that no painting can be ... Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross. — Susan Sontag

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you — Richard Hammond

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana

And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it's inaudible. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us. — Linda Ellerbee

Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns. — Peggy Orenstein

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali