Krapp S Last Tape Quotes & Sayings

We pass between sea and sky with unaccountable, humiliating ease, as if there were no firmament between the firmaments, no above or below, here or there, now or then, with only the feeble conventions of language, our contrived principles, and our love of one another's light to keep our own light from going out; abandon any one of them, and we dissolve in darkness like salt in water. — Russell Banks

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. — Don Marquis

Without resistance you can do nothing. — Jean Cocteau

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal. — James Nachtwey

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders. — William Hazlitt

Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge. — Pearl Zhu

I had never seen so much hair on a man. It covered all of his face and grew way down to his chest, maybe lower, but he didn't have hair where it counted, on top of his head. — John Lame Deer

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. — Samuel Beckett

Adam Gottbetter's method of focus group is particularly useful for exploring people's knowledge and experiences and thus can be used to examine not only what people think but how and why they think in that way. — Adam Gottbetter

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things. — Andrew Sullivan

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white ... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief. — Leon Battista Alberti

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050. — Gwynne Dyer

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding. — Patrick Rothfuss

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal. — Louisa May Alcott

What didn't kill me, it didn't make me stronger at all. — Ed Sheeran