Estnation Quotes & Sayings

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power. — Toni Morrison

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel De Montaigne

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large. — Anaxagoras

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — G.K. Chesterton

We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story. — Jeff Zentner

Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really defensive attitude about being a hunchback. You know how people can be, giving him a hard time. So he turned that into a defensive mechanism. He would strike first, a lot of times. But he was a great guy, and really those talks we had when I was about 15, out of all of that came the studio over the drugstore and everything else. I'm not saying - I'm no big deal, but I was a part of the birth of the music there. — Donnie Fritts

Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. — Swami Vivekananda

I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well. — Rick Santorum

I think I was born making up stories in my head. I wrote my first play when I was 5. No, I couldn't write yet. It was with a stick on a piece of paper that floated by on the wind, and it was about a girl named Cindy. The fact that it closely resembled Cinderella is pure coincidence. — Darynda Jones

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment. — Edward Gibbon

I just eat life ... I engage in life. — Tom Cruise

We looked into each other's eyes, pushing the veil of reality to expose wondrous ether where time ceased to exist. Our bodies melted together into a single form and there was no ending or beginning. We were an echoing union; our mad dance shattering all inhibitions and conceptions, destroying the world around and within to make way for something new. — Ken Alexopoulos