Blieve Quotes & Sayings

How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens? he asked himself. Thinking about it and taking as his model Grandfather, an artist in religion who had given to its study the devotion and the hours of discipline that a violinist devotes to his instrument, he thought that their perception was born of the faculty of wonder, deepening to meditation and to penetrating sight and so strong that it could last out a lifetime. Grandfather wondered, all day and every day, at the wisdom of God and the beauty of the world, and Ferranti had wondered at the waste and pain and frustration of life. — Elizabeth Goudge

He hugs the thought to himself with guilty glee. — David Lodge

We're the summation of our histories, so if this guy is truly falling in love with you, he's falling for your past as much as he's falling for your present. — Megan Squires

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist ... if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves. — Seth Lloyd

I get along with everybody because I don't believe anybody. — Sirio Maccioni

Great. So he's a genius. Fifty points for Ivanclaw. — Margaret Stohl

A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum. — R. B. Kitaj

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city. — Laozi