Fenris Digital Quotes & Sayings

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations. — Brian Bates

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music. — Anne Waldman

I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.' — George R R Martin

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation. — Samuel Johnson

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church. — Parker Palmer

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years. — Vera Wang

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana