Gonsalves Art Quotes & Sayings

Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations."
"How do you know?
how can you guess all this, sir?"
"I know it well; therefore I proceed almost as freely as if I were writing my thoughts in a diary. — Charlotte Bronte

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love. — Arthur Wing Pinero

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent — Carl Jung

Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized, a reading our eyes wish to view. Poetry is refined, a structure our moral selves seek. Poetry is civil, instigating the world to remain sane. Poetry is not ordinary, but it needs the ordinary eyes to continue to be the interesting art form of expression. Poetry is like a child communicating, who later grows to be an adult communicating in prose. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. — Margaret Atwood

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck. — Clyde Tombaugh