Impeded Stream Quotes & Sayings

I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist. — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

Nature needs no help, just no interference. — B. J. Palmer

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind. — Rudolf Arnheim

Who's to say I'm not an entirely different person? Because I am. You have to understand, five years ago I was a waitress. — Lady Gaga

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. — Elisabeth Shue

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate. — Pinero Arthur Wing

She was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart. — Jane Austen

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming ... especially a wayward youth. — T.F. Hodge

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it . — Ali Shariati

Life is a most precious gift of the divine. — Vishwas Chavan

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved. — Sharon Salzberg

You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning. — Taylor Swift

Humans have very odd tastes. They think their music is beautiful. They are wrong. It is awful. All of it. And they completely ignore their greatest accomplishments: the cinnamon bun, the Snickers bar, the hot pepper, and the refreshing beverage called vinegar. — Katherine Applegate

There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. — Wendell Berry

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people. — Pat Conroy

A strong hand suddenly grasped my arm above the elbow. My eyes flew open in surprise. It was that hateful, arrogant man from earlier, standing a few steps below me. He looked at me with a strange expression on his face. It almost looked like ... concern. What did he want? I tried to ask him, but the walls were falling in on me again. I closed my eyes tightly. "I think you're about to faint," a low voice said. Whose voice was it? It was too nice to belong to that man. I shook my head and said weakly, "I don't faint." And then darkness rushed up while I swooped down. We met in the middle and it swallowed me whole. — Julianne Donaldson

It's the impeded stream that sings — Wendell Berry