Gasner Hughes Quotes & Sayings

Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests. — Patrick Geddes

The ideal of toleration sounds like a formal condition allowing all flowers to bloom, but it turns out on examination to adumbrate a determinate form of life no less intrusive than the Sharia or "fundamentalist" Christianity. — Kenneth Minogue

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. — Pierre Corneille

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. — Kathy Acker

Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate. — Carrie Underwood

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious. — B.R. Ambedkar

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary. — Nicole Brossard

Every class has pupils who mimic the teachers particularly well and perform for their classmates; a class without such teacher-mimics would have something lifeless about it. — Elias Canetti

Often immitated, but never duplicated! — Lou Albano

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. — Tim O'Brien

In the beginning was the myth. — Hermann Hesse

I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good? — Lailah Gifty Akita

In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element. — Herbert

I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old. — Al Jarreau