Barock Quotes & Sayings

Hear twice before you speak once. — Anonymous

Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized its potential to touch others in their innermost being, what [Kathleen] Fraser has termed their "yearning side," it could be a profoundly communal act. Poetry, when it succeeded, did so in ways that were not quantifiable, and did not look much like worldly success, but that might be summed up as the joy on the face of a girl in a dingy classroom who finds a kindred spirit in a poem by Garcia Lorca. — Kathleen Norris

No great leader in history fought to prevent change. — John C. Maxwell

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same. — Ronda Rousey

I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam - only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values. — Muhammad Asad

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself. — Ryan Sheckler

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths. — George R R Martin

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
— Eugene Delacroix

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era. — Klaus Nomi

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom. — Terence McKenna

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. — Thomas A Kempis

Embrace the miracles in everyday life. — Lailah Gifty Akita