Gjinjte Quotes & Sayings

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Sex makes you stupid — Donna Barnes

... what your life means depends on how you tell the story. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't. — Jewel

He'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done. — Terry Pratchett

He rode out in the dark long before daylight and he rode the sun up and he rode it down again. In the oncoming years a terrible drought struck west Texas. He moved on. There was no work in that country anywhere. Pasture gates stood open and sand drifted in the roads and after a few years it was rare to see stock of any kind and he rode on. Days of the world. Years of the world. Till he was old. — Cormac McCarthy

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future. — Samuel Johnson

If Democrats want to start winning elections in this country, they're going to have to start connecting with voters as well as I connect with my fans. — Zach Braff

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time? — Han Suyin

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it. — Marianne Williamson

If you watch '90210,' you see my hair changing every episode - I've chopped it off, and I've kept it long. I've done it all to my hair on that show. — Jessica Stroup

When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope. — Emile Durkheim

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous. — Jim Henson

All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard. — Sara Teasdale