Istachatta Quotes & Sayings

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you. — Doseone

We are clearcutting virgin forests around the world, and 95 percent of species in the clearcut zone have never been studied. So we clearcut a part of the virgin forest and now part of our ecosystem has been wiped out. Some of it may grow back, and some of it won't. — Horst Rechelbacher

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it. — Joyce Carol Oates

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely. — James G. Stavridis

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. — Dale Carnegie

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. — Lee Iacocca

On the beach, I take my clothes off under a towel. — Clare Balding

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. — Bruce Lee

I wasn't crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn't feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing. — Benyf

It looked as though [the stars] were breathing to some never-ending slow, deep rhythm. They breathed & watched as the world came & went. ...For them, the earth was one more island world in the immeasurable ocean of outer space, its inhabitants microscopically small — Nina George

I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I am much fucking angrier than you think. — Sarah Kane

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco

In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn't fill him with the same enthusiasm — Gustave Flaubert

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not? — George Bernard Shaw