Klerensz Quotes & Sayings

...there will be sleeping enough in the grave.... — Benjamin Franklin

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo — Leo Tolstoy

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? - JANE WAGNER — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Whenever the bed was occupied during the daylight hours, whether because one of us was sick or was napping, Fred would appear in the doorway and enter without knocking. On his big gray face would be a look of quiet amusement (at having caught somebody in bed during the daytime) coupled with his usual look of fake respectability. — E.B. White

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away. — Helen Frankenthaler

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey

There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone. — Jim Brown

There were moments, Hasan, when I like to think that the stars are bullet-holes. For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star, with so great a radiance that it can never be put out, it can never be imprisoned. But if that really were true, the last three months in this city would have erased every trace of blackness from the sky. — Kamila Shamsie

Let the perfectionist play postal. — Yasser Seirawan

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being. — Nicolas Winding Refn

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. — Philip Jose Farmer

An experience has to be formed, no doubt, before it is communicated, but it takes the form it does largely because it may have to be communicated. — Ivor A. Richards