Cocklebur Quotes & Sayings

Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even though we cannot see clearly how it's going to turn out, we are still called to let the future into our imagination. We will never be able to build what we have not first cherished in our hearts. — Joanna Macy

Art, it seems to me, should simplify. — Willa Cather

The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready. — Matt Mullenweg

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality. — Edi Rama

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy. — Jack Kerouac

She hugged herself and told herself that she was brave, and she almost believed herself [ ... ] — Neil Gaiman

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place. — Neil Gaiman

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M. — Alice Sebold

You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California
someplace with gourmet groceries and nude beaches because you've reared them to cook good and be liberal minded. It's just the opposite with your failures
them kids stick to your tail like a cocklebur. You'd think it would be the other way around, but it's not. No matter how old I get, this will always amaze me. — Michael Lee West

The law holds man in bondage; love makes him free. — Ludwig Feuerbach

For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory. — Thomas Ian Nicholas

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. — Jimmy Wales

Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him. — John Owen

An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass — Ron Rash

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues. — Whoopi Goldberg