Gnomically Quotes & Sayings

I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state ... I used to take long solitary walks on Sundays, during which I tended to review the current situation in a leisurely way. Such occasions often proved fruitful, even though (or perhaps, because) the primary purpose of the walk was relaxation and not research. — Paul Dirac

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character. — Rick Warren

I'm the first person in my family to play poker. — Chris Moneymaker

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads. — Willam Belli

You can be stylish, and powerful too. — Barack Obama

She had me from Hello," I say to Zizzy.
"What's wrong with you dude? She never said Hell. She always welcomes us with blood dripping fangs and a horde of corpses surrounding her." Zizzy protests.
"Monsters have their own way to say Hello, moron. They just need someone to get it, that this is actually hello. — Cameron Jace

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style. — Madison Smartt Bell

Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays. — Lee Child

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds — Leonora Carrington

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it's in you. — Steve Backley

When one expects to go on "forever" as one does in one's youth or even middle age, horizons are merely limits, not yet ends. It is when one first sees the horizon as an end that one first begins to see. — Archibald MacLeish

For you are abstract,
making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle

True strength is measured by patience, ability and compassion, never simply brute force. — Cary Washington

I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated. — Poul Anderson

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do. — Ben Vereen