Fayrene Hofer Quotes & Sayings

The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited at different times with widely divergent aims. This sacred work of so many epochs and so many hands contains some facts of provable history, some stories of unprovable myth, some poetry of soaring beauty, and many passages of unintelligible, perhaps coded, perhaps simply mistranslated, mystery. Most of it is written not to recount events but to promote a higher truth - the relationship of one people and their God. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to. — Patricia C. Wrede

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. — Bertrand Russell

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve. — Pete Sampras

Hans and Christian just stare at me, faces grim. All I can think of is how awesome it would be if my name were Andersen. — Cyn Balog

Great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain. — Agnes De Mille

I'm Little Miss Sunshine, I sprinkle it around. — Courtney Robertson

Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted. — Paulo Coelho

We learn to understand ourselves in and through it because the artwork is not a timeless present for a pure aesthetic consciousness (i.e., it is not an encounter with an object for which one can only express feelings of pleasure or displeasure), but rather, a real encounter with a world that presents itself historically. The self-understanding that occurs in relation to the experience of art, Gadamer tells us, is only possible when our experiencing is not discontinuous with "the unity and integrity of the other."17 — James Risser

I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem. — Janet Evanovich