Faberty Quotes & Sayings

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important. — Grace Paley

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training. — Charles Eastman

Crossing the ocean is secondary, planning how to pass the tides is the goal. — Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good. — Plato

I am the eye with which the Universe / Beholds itself, and knows it is divine. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em. — Red Skelton

We need to make our own miracles, it is a wasted exercise to just wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy and desire to make them come true. — Steven Redhead

COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such musics, from La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Arvo Part, Nurse With Wound's Solilique For Lilith,The Dream Syndicate (orig.concept not the newer group who plundered the name) to Synus, Earth and so on.and on and on. Some new so called ambient musics fall between genres and so between newsgroups: some of our own music has certainly been deeply inspired by and informed by such musics,from Partch to Subotnic. — John Balance

If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it. — Lance Berkman

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time. — J.M. Barrie

I don't consider my life to be boring at all. I consider my life to be massively fortunate. — Eve Plumb

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues. — George Will