Eivys Quotes & Sayings

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? — Vera Nazarian

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them. — Niccolo Machiavelli

You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician. — Aldous Huxley

Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the validity of the artistic vision even if there is not a conscious faith in God. — Madeleine L'Engle

To understand is to invent. — Jean Piaget

If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it? — Malala Yousafzai

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. — John Berger

You can't own what belongs to the world. — T.J. Klune

I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that. — Rick Wakeman

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences. — Wynter Gordon

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare

Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick. — Claire Cross

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great. — Joe Manganiello