Blasentee Quotes & Sayings

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, where in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form - to make it true and real to the theme, not to life ...
I myself remember with what a shock I heard people say that one of my own books, Winesburg, Ohio, was an exact picture of Ohio village life. The book was written in a crowded tenement district of Chicago. The hint for almost every character was taken from my fellow lodgers in a large rooming house, many of whom had never lived in a village. The confusion arises out of the fact that others besides practicing artists have imaginations. But most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not. — Sherwood Anderson

The discovery of one star is the promise of another. — Robert Aris Willmott

When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that. — Biz Stone

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else. — Gerald Brenan

My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out. — Adam DeVine

The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise. — Milan Kundera

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent. — Nouriel Roubini