Gjalt Smit Quotes & Sayings

I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel. — Ben Lerner

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. — Brian Eno

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness. — Michael Schudson

Winter in New England is merciless and cruel, a season that instills a particular melancholy in its residents and a hopelessness that is all but impossible to shake. — Alice Hoffman

The stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep. — Robert M. Pirsig

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. — Stephen Hawking

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to. — Sam Harris

Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these travelers could have been stone figures quarried from the architecture of an older time. — Cormac McCarthy

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. — Thomas Mann

You are the apple of Love's eye. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Some there be that shadows kiss / Such have but a shadow's bliss — William Shakespeare

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate. — Jill Soloway