Heckendorf Acquisitions Quotes & Sayings

Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it had to be reciprocal. Should one take the children of the soil as models because they possessed the depth of organic reality, whereas the ice flowers were mere external phenomena? But as phenomena, they were the result of an interplay of matter no less complex than that found in plants. If I understood our friendly host correctly, what concerned him was the unity of animate and so-called inanimate nature, the idea that we sin against the latter if the boundary we draw between the two spheres is too rigid, when in reality it is porous, since there is no elementary capability that is reserved exclusively for living creatures or that the biologist could not likewise study on inanimate models. — Thomas Mann

I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night. — Jessica Simpson

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus. — Tom Butler-Bowdon

Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them. — Leila Aboulela

Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him. — Bernardo Bertolucci

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here? — Cheryl Strayed

Tresha. It was the thankful, humble, vulnerable feeling that came after someone saw a truth in you, something they had discovered just by watching, something that you did not admit often to yourself. — Becky Chambers

Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life. — Pope Francis

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person. — Evangeline Lilly

Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead. — Anita Roddick

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment. — Jaggi Vasudev