Contrivings Quotes & Sayings

Love is not rude.' You might be the shyest person in the world, the least well prepared for dealing with others, but if you have a reservoir of Love in your heart, you will always behave correctly. — Paulo Coelho

I am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I don't take advances for my books. — Andrew Vachss

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. — Sergio Aragones

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man's duty and should be his joy. — Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

Rapport? You mean like, You'll run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can? — Jeff Kemp