Craylec Quotes & Sayings

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance. — John Walford

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets ... when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through. — Charles Bukowski

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it. — Michael Bay

I have always felt this
And I, I could never hear it
So I turned it up
And turned it on
And turned it down
Always the volume always the words — Sara Quin

Summers are the best. And I figured summer was my best time for meeting someone, too, because in the summer people are looking for someone to snuggle up with for the winter. And because in the summer I could take off my shirt. — Andrew Tobias

Patience is the key to well-being. — Muhammad

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world? — Isobelle Carmody

We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change ... are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells you that we're running out of resources or in a terrible mess
they are idiots. We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something. To say we are running out of resources is like saying we are running out of brain cells. — Robert Anton Wilson

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. — Barack Obama

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family. — Billy Graham

I'll be damned. Miranda Sweet, is it you or is my glaucoma acting up again?" Ruby Sue sat her glass down on the Formica countertop with a clank. "You always did know how to make an entrance. Who do you think you are, the Queen of England? — Avery Flynn

Fate is a cruelly sweet fruit. — Jun Mochizuki

But are no other portraits necessary? Should we not be taught to see the men and women among whom we really live, - men and women such as we are ourselves, - in order that we should know what are the exact failings which oppress ourselves, and thus learn to hate, and if possible to avoid in life the faults of character which in life are hardly visible, but which in portraiture of life can be made to be so transparent. — Anthony Trollope

Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction. — Thomas L. Friedman