Bruno Buccellati Quotes & Sayings

A tree looks a lot taller in the desert than it does in the forest. — PWP

The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast — Rachel Caine

If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price. — Charles R. Swindoll

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away. — Carl Sagan

... no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people. — Louisa May Alcott

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass. — Bob Hope

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. — James A. Garfield

Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere. — Jaggi Vasudev

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon

There is a juiciness to creativity, a succulence that comes up from within, a sensuality which both produces and is soothed by the act and product of creativity. Creativity is pleasing to us on a deep level. Be it the feel of clay in our hands, the colors that make us feel alive as we knit or sew, the meaning that we find in the words that we write, the energizing feel of movement as we dance and the music moves through our bodies. Taking part in creativity helps us to be more fully alive on every level, it asks that we engage with life in a visceral, and interactive way. — Lucy H. Pearce

Everything is still everything.

The Poem Remains. — R.M. Engelhardt

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words. — Aldous Huxley

Peak-to-peek, conquering one peak and then peeking over the top to find another one to climb. — Les Brown

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity. — Jaggi Vasudev

The old Lena is dead, I say, and then push past him, back down through the gully toward the camp. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You — Lauren Oliver