Falguiere Phyrne Quotes & Sayings

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back ... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

He had a sense - honed by experience - that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67] — Guy Gavriel Kay

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything. — Lawrence Weschler

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert A. Heinlein — Larry Niven

Get God and get everything. — Evans Biya

Moshup made this island He dragged his toe through the water and cut this land from the mainland. He went on then, with much animation, to relate a fabulous tale of giants and whales and shape-shifting spirits. I let hi speak, because I did not want to vex him, but also because I liked to listen to the story as he told it, with expression and vivid gesture. Of course, I thought it all outlandish. But ... it came to me that our story of a burning bush and a parted sea might also seem fabulous, to one not raised up knowing it was true. — Geraldine Brooks

The room was very shadowy, almost totally black all around, except for the light coming from the bright bulb of the lamp. — Bruce Alterman

Americans need to continue to develop broad-based movements that reject the established political parties and rethink the social formations necessary to bring about a radical democracy. We see this in the Black Lives Matter movement as well as in a range of other movements that are resisting corporate money in politics, the widespread destruction of the environment, nuclear war and the mass incarceration state. — Henry A. Giroux