Bukovel Quotes & Sayings

Life is stranger than biology textbooks. — David Rains Wallace

Sooner or later I may figure out why you like being a kept poodle. — Raymond Chandler

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi

Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start making your own stuff. I hang pictures of my favourite artists in my studio. They're like friendly ghosts. I can almost feel them pushing me forward as I'm hunched over my desk. — Austin Kleon

Unfortunately the next day was not the vast, extraneous expanse of time which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer. — Marcel Proust

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. — Richard M. Nixon

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure. — Nick Clooney

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein

Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised long ago, it has probably been preserved in the later stages of the tale's history because of the great mythical significance of prohibition. A sense of significance may indeed have lain behind some of the taboos themselves. Thou shalt not - or else thou shalt depart beggared into endless regret. The gentlest 'nursery-tales' know it. Even Peter Rabbit was forbidden a garden, lost his blue coat, and took sick. The Locked Door stands as an eternal Temptation. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide. — Samuel Johnson

I'm very conscious of the fact that you can't do it alone. It's teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it. — Wangari Maathai

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form. — Herschell Gordon Lewis