Birthday Wishes And Prayer Quotes & Sayings

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length. — Craig Charles

Overlooking an offence is a gift of love — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public ... should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life. — Leo Steinberg

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith

Dammit, I'm dying here.

No, worse, I'm already dead. Wheel me off to the fucking coroner's office, and mark down cause of death: Keely's dirty mind and miraculous cunt. — Roxy Sloane

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps. — William Carlos Williams

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give. — Chen Guangbiao

Fundamentalism is a form of mental illness that seeks to repress anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence. The more mature the personality structure, the greater the capacity of the person, and the culture, to tolerate the anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence that are a necessary and unavoidable dimension of our lives. — James Hollis

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our repartee would be rich with subtlety and sarcasm, as smart and funny as midcareer Woody Allen. Our fucking, like Werner Herzog, serious and perplexing. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed. — Alber Elbaz

Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion. — Annie Dillard