Gnostica News Quotes & Sayings

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything. — Edgar Degas

One of us says, "I don't know how to deal with this tricky bit of plot"; the other one listens and says, "The solution, Grasshopper, is in the way you state the problem. Fancy a coffee? — Terry Pratchett

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached. — Alan Carr

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race. — Iris Murdoch

They rode on. The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the round earth rolled beneath them silently milling the greater void wherein they were contained. In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinships. — Cormac McCarthy

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
too full for sound or foam,
when that which drew from out
the boundless deep
turns again home. — Alfred Tennyson

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own — Fernando Pessoa

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband. — Jose Ferreira