Garthoff Landscape Quotes & Sayings

Of course one's sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one's class, race, gender, and sexual identification. ... But [regarding] national character ... , aside from references to a national aesthetic - literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both - the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Merce; but also the "trashy, profane and obscene" poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham's expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions are false. Emily Dickinson, in fact, can be as trashy and obscene as the best of them! Anyway, Dickinson and Whitman are at the heart of this narrative. They are the Dancing Queen and the Guitar Hero. — Barbara Browning

I don't say things straight into the other person's face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking. — Christoph Waltz

There's never an end only a new beginning. — Ian Dawkins Moore

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let's get out of here."
"Where are we going?"
"You'll see. — Becca Fitzpatrick

To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes — Mohammed Sekouty

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face. — Paul Coffey

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me. — Elizabeth Scott

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable. — T. Harv Eker

All is fair in fashion and war. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

And with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to. They were all real and true - solidly — Rudyard Kipling