Flatley Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to come so near? — Sara Davidson

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience ... — Louise Erdrich

It's not for us to choose our times, Jacob. But we must be ready when they come. — Joel C. Rosenberg

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water. — Sylvia Fraser

grave monsters of fable in deeps of the ferny forest danced minuets that witches had made of their whims and their laughter, long ago long ago in their youth before cities had come to the world. And the trees of the forest heavily lifted slow roots out of the ground and swayed upon them uncouthly and then danced as on monstrous claws, and the insects danced on the huge waving leaves. And in the dark of long caverns weird things in enchanted seclusion rose out of their age-long sleep and danced in the damp — Lord Dunsany

Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart. — Debasish Mridha

Some things you miss because they're so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don't see because they're so huge. — Robert M. Pirsig

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks. — S.A. Tawks

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. — Tony Abbott

It is that flavor exuded by women who have fashioned an earthy and simplified sexual adjustment to their environment, borne their young, achieved an unthinking physical confidence. They are often placidly unkempt, even grubby, taking no interest in the niceties of posture. They have a slow relish for the physical spectrum of food, sun, deep sleep, the needs of children, the caressess of affection. There is a tiny magnificance about them, like the sultry dignity of she-lions. — John D. MacDonald

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities. — Zephyr Teachout