Duranty Artist Quotes & Sayings

In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that's their choice and their freedom. I won't judge them. — E.A.A. Wilson

Sometimes the gap between wrong and right is so negligible that we ignore it altogether. We pretend that the length of a day is 24 hours and that the ground beneath our feet is steady, when in fact the length of the day changes and Earth's axis wobbles constantly as we hurtle around the sun at about 66,000 miles per hour and the sun moves around the center of the galaxy at about 500,000 miles per hour. — Konstantin Kakaes

The only thing I really missed was sitting next to one very extraordinary girl." I didn't think I was breathing anymore.

"She sounds wonderful." I tried some humor to shake off my nervousness.

"You have no idea. — Kristen Day

Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right. — Cecelia Ahern

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all
Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall
Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled
Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child. — Thomas Tusser

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds. — Anna Chlumsky

The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation. — Frederick Lenz

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. — Emmet Gowin

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character. — Dwayne Johnson

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer. — Richard J. Foster

An inquiry which I once made into the psychology of the Indian sign language with a view to discovering a possible relation between it and Greek manual gesture as displayed in ancient graphic art, led to the conclusion that Indian rhythms arise rather in the centre of self-preservation than of self-consciousness. Which is only another way of saying that poetry is valued primarily by the aboriginal for the reaction it produces within himself rather than for any effect he is able to produce on others by means of it. — Carl Sandburg

Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic?
Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified the failure of the planetary strategy of the United States, it would necessarily have completely disrupted its internal balance and the American political system. — Jean Baudrillard

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO. — Warren Christopher

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel — Tamora Pierce