Gautney Performance Quotes & Sayings

As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. — Bob Marley

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. — John Stuart Mill

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin. — Matthew Flaming

There are authors I truly enjoy to read, like John Irving and Don Delillo and Vollman and Hubert Selby Jr. and Hunter S. Thompson. And then there are writers that, while I enjoy their work, I read as a challenge to myself, to sharpen my knives, like Goethe or Genet or Faulkner or Joyce or Salinger. And I have a terrible weakness for music biographies. They are the best books to take on the road. I don't even have to like the band to enjoy the book. Want a wonderful literary anecdote? And watch your toes, because I'm dropping names like bricks. My favorite book of all time is Among The Dead by Michael Tolkin. Wonderful, dark, funny book. — Sammy Winston

Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us. — Brian D'Ambrosio

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. — Phillip Noyce

Silly Poet. Haven't you wondered where Sevro is? — Pierce Brown

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ... — Jane Hirshfield

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them. — Ron Suskind