Chelovek Orkestr Quotes & Sayings

Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done. — Shoma Morita

religion attempts to influence our mind-set before we are tempted, by creating moral education and - let's not forget - guilt. — Dan Ariely

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it. — Terry Gilliam

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good. — Charles Bukowski

It's more common for the students I've worked with to read too much than to read too little. They use reading as a distraction, or as a way to avoid having to think their own thoughts, or as a magic charm: "If I read everything in the field, then I'll be able to write and be sure I haven't missed anything. — Joan Bolker

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos? — Lionel Suggs

The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for the entire universe to arm itself in order to crush him; a whiff of vapor, a taste of water, suffices to kill him. But when the universe crushes him, the human being becomes still more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and the advantage that the universe has over him. The universe, it does not have a clue.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. This is the basis on which we must raise ourselves, and not space and time, which we would not know how to fill. Let us make it our task, then, to think well: here is the principle of morality. — Blaise Pascal

I was a kid and a little pedantic but I still maintain I had a point. — Don DeLillo

I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make. — Samaire Armstrong

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away. — David Morrissey

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

We please the people we don't care for, we displease those we do! — Henry James

The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse. — Jack London

At this point, the jealousy that tortured me all my life commenced, and the force with which it came over me marked me forever. It became my true passion, utterly heedless of any attempts at convincing me or pointing out a better way. — Elias Canetti