Bracteantha Quotes & Sayings

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. — Stan Brakhage

Perfection exists only in your own mind. What you find to be perfect, is not necessarily perfect for someone else. — Ilia Berends

Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Father's life was only a very small part of the life of a tea bowl. — Yasunari Kawabata

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge. — Abdelkader El Djezairi

I want to figure out how we put California and America back on track - how we bridge this partisan divide that is so polarizing. — Antonio Villaraigosa

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble. — Sappho

Huntin too hard for the truth ain't a good idea, y'know," he added. "By the time you stumble over it, it ain't the truth no more. Unless there's death in it. I reckon death is about as close to truth as a man can come. — Peter Matthiessen

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work. — Alexander Pope

Hey.How's it going?"
Martin always butched it up a little with his brother.
He tried to sound like a mechanic.
Why a mechanic?
Martin wasn't sure.
His own mechanic was gay, but he didn't sound gay.
Maybe that was what he was going for-gay but not gay. — Marshall Thornton

Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly.
"So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world. — Susan Cooper

I was a boss on 'Cavemen.' That was portentous. — Stephanie Courtney