Gombrich Hobby Quotes & Sayings

D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they somehow have embodied some central human mystery (love, loss, being a body in time, who knows which or what?) and thus can be retold infinitely and still be rich. That's part of your saying: it's old, but it's also new. Or: there's nothing "new" in the human heart, but it still matters lots. — Gregory Orr

Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted. — Joe Abercrombie

What dost thou know of suffering and oppression! I and my people know, but not thou. — Mark Twain

Son of a bitch! I own your place! I'm your host. Is this how you repay me? By stealing my woman?"
The spirit stopped and turned.
"No one owns me," he said. "I go where I will."
"Yeah well I'll fill in your fucking pond and build a goddamned parking lot! How would you like that? Huh? I'll build condos. I'll tear up the whole damned forest and pave it over!"
The spirit stopped and regarded him. Angus swept the rain from his face as he waited for the spirit's reply, the two of them hovering in the storm. — Elliot Mabeuse

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. — Robert Herrick

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. — George Bernard Shaw

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. — Graham Nelson

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human - 'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average personal values, all of which must be quantitively different or trade would be impossible. — Robert A. Heinlein

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office. — Winston Churchill

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal. — Rob Zombie