Cartmell Davis Quotes & Sayings

Autumn
The passion
Is still flourishing in the branches
Yellow funny and daring red
The sun warms even in the days
Where the fog
Stubbornly in the morning
From a distance
A woodpecker knocks
Impermanence
Is the enemy of beauty — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the transformative power of truth is not a credible companion for consolidating modes of established power, but that truth characteristically runs beyond the confines of such power. — Walter Brueggemann

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

They ... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. — Rose Macaulay

Irish of three hundred years ago, who thought that to kill a cat brought seventeen years bad luck. A — Grace Elliot

Erupting like fiery autumn leaves between silks
as skin meets skin
flames that lick everything
and consume all there is. — Sreesha Divakaran

Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold. — Joe Kraus

My girlfriend works at Hooters. In the kitchen. — Mitch Hedberg

You know it ain't no stoppin'
All the doggs I'm droppin'
It's Friday night, so everything is poppin. — Ice Cube

If nursing were easy, there wouldn't be so many helpful products. — Cassi Clark

A dance to the music of time. — Anthony Powell

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop. — Kate Bush

Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker. — Jorge Luis Borges

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. — Joan Halifax

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. — Christopher Fowler