Busts Sculpture Quotes & Sayings

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down. — Sylvia Plath

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read. — Linda Ronstadt

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards. — Ishmael Beah

I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run. — Herbert Hoover

What you must do," said Monkey, "is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive. — Wu Cheng'en

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Shine your light, you will inspire others to radiant their inner light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In my heart of hearts I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in the United States. The planet was interested in nothing else. And in any case, whatever happened in Rwanda, it would always be the same old story of blacks beating up on each other. Even Africans would say, during half-time of every match, "They're embarrassing us, they should stop killing each other like that." Then they'll go on to something else. [9-10] — Boubacar Boris Diop

Few people want witnesses to their pain, and grief is the worst pain of all. — Sabaa Tahir

Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes! — Marilyn French

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy

The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new. — William Thurston

The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity. — Friedrich Nietzsche