Kirian Gallery Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that the musical public is seemingly so reluctant to consider a musical composition as, possibly, a challenging experience? When I hear a new piece of music that I do not understand I am intrigued - I want to make contact with it again at the first opportunity. It's a challenge - it keeps my interest in the art of music thoroughly alive. If, after repeated hearings, a work says nothing to me, I do not therefore conclude that modern composition is in a sorry condition. I simply conclude that that piece is not for me. — Aaron Copland

She would go home and marry a man who owned carpet shops, and she would bear his children, and he would take other women to nightclubs, and she would get old and die and hope for better luck next time around. — Nick Hornby

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not. — Sammy Davis Jr.

mail-outs. As missionaries have always understood, the key is to study the culture you are passionate about reaching and submerge into that space with respect and love. — Jen Hatmaker

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There is no paradox. There is only irony. — Philip K. Jason

It lays on his abdomen, angled slightly to the left. It's almost cute-kind of like Snuffleupagus. Well, not really. It's huge, but not hairy, and also not nearly as daunting as when it's hard. It is magical, though. I stifle a giggle because, goddamn it, I've never seen a snuffie up close. The head is tucked up inside the soft skin, an eye peering out from the turtleneck. — Helena Hunting

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us. — Junot Diaz

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. — Stephen R. Covey

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. — Kevin Richardson

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices. — Bruno Latour

Stupid people should never read books. — Andrew Smith

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later. — David Pajo