Fartsy Artsy Quotes & Sayings

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters. — Teller

The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our distance. But however well aware I am of its strength, and that in its full immediate force and expression it is in some respects irrelevant to moral inquiry, I doubt that it is ever to be honored, or regarded as other than evil and in every direction fatally degrading and destructive; even when it is obeyed in hot blood or in a crisis of prevention; far worse when it is obeyed in cold blood and in the illusion of carrying out justice. — James Agee

It took a while to master the right phrases, but once I got him going, old Gilly - boy - he took to it like a knife to a soft back."

"Gilly?" Hadrian asked, laughing.

"A pet has to have a name, doesn't it? Later I'm planning to teach it fetch and roll over, but for now, dig and sic 'em will do — Michael J. Sullivan

When people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose. — Sheena Iyengar

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man. — Henry Ward Beecher

You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it. — Brandon Flowers

Laughing is the body's approval of the absurd. — Anthony Marais

I'm more of a science-fizz-bam-boom-poof girl than an artsy-fartsy type. — Angela Cervantes

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go. — Wayne Dyer

I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery. — Brennan Manning

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it. — James Wright

But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics. — Barack Obama

I don't like repeating mistakes, but sometimes, I think we're both forever stuck on a turntable. — Krista Ritchie