Gracianas Quotes & Sayings

Nothing could hide the dancing darkness of a nightmare that was soul deep. — Antoinette Turner

EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand. — Richard Hovey

If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does. — Tom Robbins

A new, sad and cheerless feeling constricted his heart; he suddenly realized that at that moment, and for a long time now, he had not been saying what he should have been saying, nor doing what he should have been doing, and that these cards he held in his hands, and had been so pleased about, could be of no help now. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. — O. Henry

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. — Neville Marriner

It seems to her [Saint Catherine of Siena] that the devil has this world in his power, not by his own will, for he is powerless, but through our help because we obey him. The evil aroma rising from the ... wars which are waged by Christians against Christians, are the same as war against God ... Peace, peace, for the sake of the love of the crucified Christ, and not war; that is the only solution. — Sigrid Undset

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line. — Adrian Younge

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. — William Sloane Coffin

Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum. — Lisa Shearin

The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem? — Billy Marshall Stoneking

Charity does not mean doing good to him who does good to you, for this is to return good for good. Charity means that you should do good to him who does you harm — Anonymous

I have never before had such a strong feeling that I was devoid of secret dimensions, confined within the limits of my body, from which airy thoughts float up like bubbles. I build memories with my present self. I am cast out, forsaken in the present: I vainly try to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. — Jean-Paul Sartre