Bournes Pond Quotes & Sayings

Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down. — Cornelia Otis Skinner

Your failures should motivate you to look at your life goals from a different angle — Sunday Adelaja

Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory. — Julie Murphy

By the work one knows the workman. — Jean De La Fontaine

Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary — Timothy Leary

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! — Thomas Gray

It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!' — Rob Thomas

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for. — Thom Mayne

In existence; you are matter, form or body,
Living from moment to moment in self-consciousness.
When you become formless in pure consciousness;
You dissolve into that absolute presence. — Gian Kumar