Kirkfield On Quotes & Sayings

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into. — James St. James

...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon. — James Fenimore Cooper

William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history. — Beth Bailey

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up. — Neil Peart

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life ... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting. — Neale Donald Walsch

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [ ... ] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us. — Steven Spielberg

As yet, though we live in a culture in which images are the dominant currency of communication, we have been unable to form an adequate picture of the future. Despite the new electronic power to create instant image flow, the ability to see the more diffuse Postmodern connections . . . has become more difficult. . . . It is harder to visualize a multinational identity than a local entity. We can only see the world by forming a picture through various specialized mediations. . . . We now lack a convincing vision... — Scott Bukatman

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of. — Jonathan Lethem

I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?
- Vaughn to Faith — Nalini Singh

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. — Seneca The Younger

We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child's most important fans! — Vivian Kirkfield

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. — Alice Waters

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them ... [and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history. — Nat Hentoff

Every day is a good day if we are reading a picture book. — Vivian Kirkfield

Nor am I greatly moved by jocular inquiries such as, 'Where will you put all the mosquitoes?'
a question to be answered on its own level by pointing out that, if the worst came to worst, a heaven for mosquitoes and a hell for men could very conveniently be combined. — C.S. Lewis