Brinkmeyer Auction Quotes & Sayings

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way — Miguel

Fortunately for Luka, he lived in an age in which an almost infinite number of parallel realities had begun to be sold as toys. — Salman Rushdie

Being a hero was much easier than being a coward. To be a hero, you only had to be brave for a moment - when you took out the gun, threw the bomb, pressed the detonator, did away with the tyrant, and away with yourself as well. But to be a coward was to embark on a career that lasted a lifetime. You couldn't ever relax. You had to anticipate the next occasion when you would have to make excuses for yourself, dither, cringe, reacquaint yourself with the taste of rubber boots and the state of your own fallen, abject character. Being a coward required pertinacity, persistence, a refusal to change - which made it, in a way, a kind of courage. — Julian Barnes

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind. — Ariel Pink

The work of art itself is ... a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched. — Susan Sontag

A quiet man I was, and not one to provoke a quarrel, but if set upon I would fight back. I do not say this in boasting, for it was as much a part of me as the beating of my heart. It was bred in the blood-line of those from whom I come, and I could not be other than I am. — Louis L'Amour

There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking. — John Green

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. — Elliott Abrams

The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power. — Dante Alighieri

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Feel free to cover your eyes at anything that might upset you — Annie Sprinkle

I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it! — Victor Mature