Houari El Quotes & Sayings

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint. — Richard M. Weaver

So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed. — Steve Zissis

Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval. — Ezra Taft Benson

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death. — Theodore Roosevelt

Things change ... things happen ... things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope. — Judy Blume

Whenever we are tempted to despair about the shape of American Christianity, we should remember that Jesus never promised the triumph of the American church. He promised the triumph of the church. — Russell D. Moore

Please leave the window open. — Jim Varney

I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did. — Mstislav Rostropovich

That as for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them, that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of; that for his part he prayed for them; but knowing that GOD could remedy the mischiefs they did when He pleased, he gave himself no farther trouble. — Brother Lawrence

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub. — Mary Hunter Austin

& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face — Nicki Minaj

Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet. — Gordon Brown

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. — Robert Frost