Donkies Quotes & Sayings

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject. — James Arthur

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. — Desi Arnaz

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending. — Colson Whitehead

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. — Cyndi Lauper

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo

When you're going through hell, go full throttle. — Terry Irving

Under capitalism, economic power flows not to the intellectual, who manipulates ideas and basks in their light, but to the man who gives himself to his ideas and tests them with his own wealth and work. — George Gilder

What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

a healthy fear of death drives a person to continue creating until the very end, but with that fear must come the acceptance that even your life's work will, in some ways, remain unfinished. — Jeff Goins

Non-surrender hardens your psychological form, the shell of the ego, and so creates a strong sense of separateness. The world around you and people in particular come to be perceived as threatening. The unconscious compulsion to destroy others through judgment arises, as does the need to compete and dominate. Even nature becomes your enemy and your perceptions and interpretations are governed by fear. The mental disease that we call paranoia is only a slightly more acute form of this normal but dysfunctional state of consciousness. Not only your psychological form but also your physical form - your body - becomes hard and rigid through resistance. Tension arises in different parts of the body, and the body as a whole contracts. — Eckhart Tolle