Diabemutat Quotes & Sayings

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best. — Wayne Coyne

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence. — Mark Twain

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future. — Aloe Blacc

So I telled her my 'maginin's o' places from old books'n'pics in the school'ry. Lands where the Fall'd never falled, towns bigger'n all o' Big I. an' towers o' stars'n'suns blazin' higher'n Mauna Kea, bays of not jus' one Prescient Ship but a mil'yun, Smart boxes what make delish grinds more'n anyun can eat, Smart Pipes what gush more brew'n anyun can drink, places where it's always spring an' no sick, no knucklyin' an' no slavin'. Places where ev'ryun's a beautsome purebirth who lives to be one hun'erd'n'fifty years. — David Mitchell

She was tired of being a symbol. Symbols were stagnant, frozen, representative, and spurring of action but never the action itself. — Elise Kova

I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something. — Jesse Andrews

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get. — Stephen Covey

Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature. — Robert A. Nisbet

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry. — Dorothea Dix

The Church is in eclipse at the moment, but what does it matter? It is God's! And the Church will be brought to the place which God has purposed for her. Christ will come again. And he will come, probably as he did the first time, when we will all feel utterly hopeless and filled with despair and say that the Church is finished and that nothing can be done. He will come and he will scatter his enemies — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer. — W. H. Auden

Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go. — Bryant McGill