Cigoli Venere Quotes & Sayings

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph. — Robert Bringhurst

I guess I don't fit the new corporate profile." "Which is?" "Competence. — Michael Chabon

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace.
They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.
For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie. — Lauren Oliver

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know. — Jake Gyllenhaal

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet. — Salma Hayek

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. — William Feather

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail. — Brian Herbert

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth) — Wendell Berry

Empty hands held high
such a small sacrifice
if not joined with my life, i sing in vain tonight
may the words i say, and the things i do
make my lifesong sing to you
Let my lifesong sing to you ... — Casting Crowns

My wife and I are like twins and that is a great and a terrible thing for a marriage. It makes for the most comfortable thing in the world to be truly known and loved, but also makes for a lot of conflict and that's how we roll in my house. — Mark Duplass

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. — Alan Hovhaness

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them. — Alison Eastwood

Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. — Howard Zinn

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens. — Patti Smith