Ernard Leach Quotes & Sayings

Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! One and all, come, help me quick! haste ye, haste ye--pick, pick, pick! — Jacob Grimm

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. — William Plomer

As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old. — Gerad Adams

Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young. — Ingeborg Bachmann

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. — Aldous Huxley

Not everyone can look past an insult and continue to work with the person who slights them — Jean Johnson

Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels. — Francis Bacon

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy, colorful and lively. — Mel Brooks

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't. — Byron Katie

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this! — William Shakespeare

It's amazing how fast you can run when there's a f**king rottweiler chasing you. — David Bowick

I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten. — Stephen R. Lawhead

How do you invent a religion?" Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, 'God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up. — Libba Bray