Jykke Quotes & Sayings

I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP. — David Wright

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. — Steven Soderbergh

=The Burial of Love= His eyes in eclipse, Pale cold his lips, The light of his hopes unfed, Mute his tongue, His bow unstrung With the tears he hath shed, Backward drooping his graceful head. Love is dead; His last arrow sped; He hath not another dart; Go--carry him to his dark deathbed; Bury him in the cold, cold heart-- Love is dead. — Alfred Tennyson

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. — H. L. Hunt

All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them. — Pope Francis

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold. — Barnabe Barnes

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore. — Shia Labeouf

There's no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I've started drinking my own urine. — Bret Easton Ellis

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the perspective of the consciousness disciplines, our ordinary state of waking consciousness is severely suboptimal. Rather than contradicting the Western paradigm, this perspective simply extends it beyond psychology's dominant concern, at least until very recently, with pathology and with therapies aimed at restoring people to "normal" functioning in the usual waking state of consciousness. At the heart of this "orthogonal," paradigm-breaking perspective lies the conviction that it is essential for a person to engage in a personal, intensive, and systematic training of the mind through the discipline of meditation practice to free himself or herself from the incessant and highly conditioned distortions characteristic of our everyday emotional and thought processes, distortions that, as we have seen, can continually undermine the experiencing of our intrinsic wholeness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing — Massimo Vignelli

The highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks. — Victor Hugo

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton