Eichelmann Quotes & Sayings

Looked into remote space, where petty worldliness hiding itself in misty distance had seemed to him great and infinite merely because it was not clearly seen. And such had European life, politics, Freemasonry, philosophy, and philanthropy seemed to him. But even then, at moments of weakness as he had accounted them, his mind had penetrated to those distances and he had there seen the same pettiness, worldliness, and senselessness. Now, however, he had learned to see the great, eternal, and infinite in everything, and therefore - to see it and enjoy its contemplation - he naturally threw away the telescope through which he had till now gazed over men's heads, and gladly regarded the ever-changing, eternally great, unfathomable, and infinite life around him. And the closer he looked the more tranquil — Leo Tolstoy

The church does not prey on the lost; it prays for the perishing. — Billy Graham

I want my sister. I want to hurl a building at God. I take a breath and exhale with enough force to blow the orange paint right off the walls. — Jandy Nelson

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me. — Vanilla Ice

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at. — Nas

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. — Kevin Bacon

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions. — Lynsey Addario

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft. — Andre Iguodala

Hence Proust's assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter, and everything to do with the subsequent treatment of that matter. — Alain De Botton

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. — Anish Kapoor