Joretaple Quotes & Sayings

There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one. — Peter London

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it. — Seneca The Younger

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful. — Niall Ferguson

I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow. — Helena Rubinstein

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data. — Charles Babbage

He's holding a squirming Jamie in his arms, but her efforts to wiggle out of his grip are futile, because her daddy's strong as fuck. — Elle Kennedy

Noon - is the Hinge of Day - ... — Emily Dickinson

Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger they will take even less, unless they are vigilant and robust about protecting their own interests. — Graham Swift

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him. — Oswald Chambers

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them. — Fergie

Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing's quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret — Robert M. Pirsig

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before? — Jeremiah Denton

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind. — Susanne Bier

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa. — Jack Kirby