Illuminative Quotes & Sayings

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing. — Sarah Jones

I will stip away all that you know, all that you love....
Until you have no shelter byt me — Leigh Bardugo

Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I just always had energy and my energy came from G-O-D! But I never needed anyone to get me going because I always had that energy. — Tommy McDonald

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. — Robertson Davies

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop. — Todd Rundgren

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry. — Honore De Balzac

The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction. — Jacob Lew

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream. — Annie Besant

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was. — Jonathan Coe

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action. — John Henry Newman

The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous. — George R R Martin