Joshscorcher Quotes & Sayings

Never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile. — Norman Mailer

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? — Stephen Hawking

Thomas nodded towards Keane. 'He doesn't want to be a priest and you don't want to be a monk. Now you're both Hellequin.'
Brother Michael looked disbelieving. 'I am?' He asked excitedly.
'You are,' Thomas said.
'So all we need now is a pair of ripe young girls who don't want to be nuns,' Keane said cheerfully. — Bernard Cornwell

Do I need grab the sheets or boil some water or something?" "That depends on if you're trying to get stains out of my bedspread." Lulu grunted. Obviously she was in pain, and obviously I wasn't the type of person you wanted to bring with you to a medical emergency. — Conner Kressley

I'm glad to be me! — Angela Sage Larsen

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view. — Laura Esquivel

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. — Hedda Sterne

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It *is*
is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.
To be nothing in the self-effacement of humility, yet, for the sake of the task, to embody its whole weight and importance in your earing, as the one who has been called to undertake it. To give to people, works, poetry, art, what the self can contribute, and to take, simply and freely, what belongs to it by reason of its identity. Praise and blame, the winds of success and adversity, blow over such a life without leaving a trace or upsetting its balance. — Dag Hammarskjold

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity. — Iain Sinclair

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. — Ralph W. Sockman