Bolkow Quotes & Sayings

and behind them came the women, and then the children with sticks and stones in their hands. There was a line of fury on the ground, slithering forth. Someone — Alice Hoffman

We are all emigrants from the same country - the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken - or are in the process of taking - from that special place. — Patricia Calvert

A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved there. — Julie Garwood

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world. — Edgar Morin

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. — Dan Millman

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me. — Will Oldham

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell

There are no accidents in Nature, — John Muir

Not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them? — Plato

I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials. — Matthew Lesko

I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the strange door, in my life, which had suddenly been thrown open and out of which came an air of a keenness I had never breathed and of a taste stronger than wine. I had heard all my days of apparitions, but it was a different thing to have seen one and to know that I should in all likelihood see it familiarly, as I might say, again. I was on the lookout for it as a pilot for the flash of a revolving light and ready to generalise on the sinister subject, to answer for it to all and sundry that ghosts were much less alarming and much more amusing than was commonly supposed. There's no doubt that I was much uplifted. I couldn't get over the distinction conferred on me, the exception - in the way of mystic enlargement of vision - made in my favour.
("Sir Edmund Orme") — Henry James

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no. — Richard Eyre

The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession. — Alphonsus Liguori