Cheekwood Quotes & Sayings

I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, it's about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend. — Rainn Wilson

Want to know a secret?"
"Yeah!" His smile grew big and broad.
"I don't know how to saddle a horse either. And I've never even ridden on one before." His eyes grew wide as the moon. "Jase!" he bellowed, spinning toward his brother."She's never ridden a horse before!"
Well, there went my secret. — J. Lynn

I was only a folk singer for about two years ... . By that time, it wasn't really folk music anymore. It was some new American phenomenon. Later, they called it singer/songwriters. Or art songs, which I liked best. Some people get nervous about that word. Art. They think it's a pretentious word from the giddyap. To me, ... the word art has never lost its vitality. — Joni Mitchell

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without. p 167
love always found itself again. — Melody Beattie

There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. — Craig Venter

My dad was old school Jewish. Not do your taxes Jewish - steal your car Jewish. — Dov Davidoff

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight. — David H. Koch

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox. — Peter De Vries

People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians ... — Narendra Modi