Gouging Torch Quotes & Sayings

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'? — Zadie Smith

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see — James Van Der Zee

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you. — Tyra Banks

the wages of empire is myopia — Natasha Trethewey

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names. — Calvin Seerveld

I think the serious roles impact people the most. — Rochelle Aytes

A false image is, of course, a work of art, an idol. And a lie. A narcissist identifies with this image, not his true inner self. So, all he cares about is his image, not what kind of person he really is. Indeed, the latter has no real existence in his world.

In identifying with his image, he's identifying with an ephemeral figment that has but virtual reality, a purely immanent existence as a reflection in the attention shone on him by others. No attention, no image. No image, no self! — Kathy Krajco

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. — Edmund Burke

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home. — Catharine Beecher

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant. — Lady G