Jefthas Daughter Quotes & Sayings

Death is [ ... ] the blackboard on which life is written. — Osho

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that. — Elsie De Wolfe

For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to describe their new discoveries form a giant growing lexicon that means English is simply bursting with new possibilities, resembling the Elizabethan age in that respect. Then conceptually, science is creating new stories to tell, by deluging us with new information and potentialities. In this deluge we need art to do its usual job of sorting things out, by giving things their human dimension and by exploring how they might feel and what they might mean. So to me the arts and the sciences are completely intertwined. Maybe that's always been true, but now more than ever. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Some race to win. Others race to survive — Maggie Stiefvater

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments. — Felix Wantang

They can't even decide what flavor of crazy I am. — Dia Reeves

The dead leaves fly. They're cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth. — Jim Crace