Balminess Quotes & Sayings

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. — Barry Lopez

What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams. — Silvina Ocampo

All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist. — Norbert Lynton

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. — Pythagoras

I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music. — Crystal Bowersox

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling. — Oliver Stone

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see. — Julian Clary

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man. — Robert Henri

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. — Novalis

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn. — Marjane Satrapi

Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls,
I speculate no more. — Emily Dickinson

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. — Randall Jarrell

The truth is easy to see, but hard to look at when you are blinded by the demands that your body and soul make of you. — S. Vagus

You get the job done or you don't. — Bill Belichick