Koefoed Ingrid Quotes & Sayings

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine. — Chaim Potok

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street. — Colum McCann

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. — Carol P. Christ

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do. — Michael Gira

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are. — Alain De Botton

The tallest slugger touched my forehead, and I ignited like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Shards of dazzling light rippled under my skin. I was the constellation Grus. The Trifid Nebula. I was the Big Bang, expanding endlessly through time and space forever.
"I thought I was dying. That I was going to expire on a cold slab, trapped inside an UFO, my body filled with every light that had ever existed. I couldn't imagine a better way to die. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Pills n potions.. We're overdosin.. I'm angry but I still love you — Nicki Minaj

The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers. — Alec Guinness

Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks. — Ron Chernow

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole. — David Letterman

The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. — Orson F. Whitney

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. — Mohammad Javad Zarif

Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. — Wallace Stevens

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. — Aldous Huxley

If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out. — Michael Josephson