Cathal Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Confucius

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on? — Natasha Richardson

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. — George Orwell

My liberators in Silicon Valley have freed me to write for you directly and to say what I want to say to anyone I want to say it to. The Internet and its innovators are doing more to facilitate the reemergence of content-laden, craft-rich, hands-on art, individuality and perhaps even spirituality, than all the galleries, agents, critics, churches and publishers combined. — Frank Schaeffer

As a child I thought that I would never grow up, that I could will it so. And then I realized, quite recently, that I had crossed some line, unconsciously cloaked in the truth of my chronology. How did we get so damn old? I say to my joints, my iron-colored hair. Now I am older than my love, my departed friends. Perhaps I will live so long that the New York Public Library will be obliged to hand over the walking stick of Virginia Woolf. I would cherish it for her, and the stones in her pocket. But I would also keep on living, refusing to surrender my pen. — Patti Smith

No. You didn't start with me. I came to you because you already had yourself — Paullina Simons

It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are . — Tom Hodgkinson

A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen. — Heinz Kohut