Chocolaad Ancestry Quotes & Sayings

It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling. — Julia Cameron

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures. — Tracy Letts

He has something of the same feeling about the hymn singing, I am told. Much as he loves it himself, and music is in him to his very fingertips, be feels - I judge both from the hearsay and from watching him break into the midst of the singing when, in a way they have in Wales, they repeat over and over the same stirring melody - that too much singing moves only surface emotions and takes the congregations' mind from the deeper influence of prayer and close communion with God. He believes completely in the efficacy of prayer, and he has for many years spent a considerable amount of time daily upon his knees. — Evan Roberts

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. — Jimmy Carter

Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will overcome any hurdles along your path. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

They have extended the arrogance and insularity of the worst kind of academic professionalism beyond the academy. Generally they show no fear or even slight anxiety at the responsibility they have assumed; they have no sense of awe in the face of the questions they have raised, and no sense of humility in the face of the traditions which they condescendingly dismiss. They are aggressively without a sense of mystery and without a suspicion that anything might be too deep for their narrowly professional competence. They mistake these vices for the virtues of thinking radically, courageously and with an unremitting hostility to obscurantism. — Raimond Gaita

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling. — Duncan Jones

May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1) — Erin Hunter

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. — Ron Paul

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?"
"I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other. — Harper Lee