Executant Quotes & Sayings

If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over. — Larry Niven

Kaitlyn:I though- that you might need something.
Gabe:I don't need anything from anyone!
Kaitlyn: I think you're lying — L.J.Smith

The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force. — George Steiner

Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave. — Vaddey Ratner

Raise and Praise; it keeps the devil away!
Feeling down? Start praising even if it is a sacrifice of praise. You will soon start feeling better because the devil will not stick around & praise God with you! — Sandra Lott

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. — Thomas Hardy

The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects ... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion. — Adolf Hitler

Ah, man. (Talon)
What? (Wulf)
Friggin' Fabio alert. (Talon)
Hey, you're not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf)
Bite me, Viking. (Talon) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme! — Jim Starlin

In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda. — Damon Runyon

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant. — Wyndham Lewis

And you know, aunt, I still hope that I shall be found to have kept on the right side of the posts. You will find that poor Lord Chiltern is not so black as he is painted.' 'But why take anybody that is black at all?' 'I like a little shade in the picture, aunt. — Anthony Trollope

Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun? — Matthew D. Heines

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else. — Douglas Harding

The whole universe wants to contribute to
you. The world wants to contribute to you. The world wants to give you everything you desire - but you don't ask. — Gary M. Douglas

Sophie's mother's voice trilled from the hallway, "William and Sophie Claire, won't you please come join us in the drawing room?" "You have a drawing room?" Will asked. "She's probably been rereading Jane Austen and decided to rename the living room. — Lauren Layne

Music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires. — Baroness Orczy

After she disappeared inside the hotel, Pasquale entertained the unwieldy thought that he'd somehow summoned her, that after years of living in this place, after months of grief and loneliness and waiting for Americans, he'd created this woman from old bits of cinema and books, from the lost artifacts and ruins of his dreams, from his epic, enduring solitude. He glanced over at Orenzio, who was carrying someone's bags, and the whole world suddenly seemed so unlikely, our time in it so brief and dreamlike. He'd never felt such a detached, existential sensation, such terrifying freedom - it was as if he were hovering above the village, above his own body - and it thrilled him in a way that he could never have explained. — Jess Walter

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes. — Henry James

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God. — Charles Caleb Colton

Pictures, apart from their aesthetic interest, can achieve the mysterious fascination of those enigmatic scrawls on walls, the expression of Heaven knows what psychological urge on the part of the executant; — Anthony Powell

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. — Edna St. Vincent Millay