Embezzled Def Quotes & Sayings

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy - material or spiritual. — Jack Kornfield

Let's part
equals, as we were in every bed, pure
equals of the earth — Sharon Olds

Special things have a way of surviving. — Alexander McCall Smith

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. — Octavio Paz

Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time. — Tika Sumpter

To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can. — Peter Greenaway

Oh, that was a terrible time for me, I can tell you. I kept the blinds drawn down over both my windows. When I peeped out, I saw the sun shining as if nothing had happened. I could not understand it. I saw people going along the street, laughing and talking about indifferent things. I could not understand it. It seemed to me that the whole of existence must be at a standstill
as if under an eclipse. — Henrik Ibsen

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing. — Lucy Larcom

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. — Paul Scofield

Don't you wish some people came with a silencer? — Josh Stern