Kurton Slike Quotes & Sayings

Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of bread or wine or stone or tree, it appeals to the whole of these things, to their ideas; yet each hearer will give to them a peculiar personal embodiment in his imagination. Should the story say 'he ate bread', the dramatic producer or painter can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own. If a story says 'he climbed a hill and saw a river in the valley below', the illustrator may catch, or nearly catch, his own vision of such a scene; but every hearer of the words will have his own picture, and it will be made out of all the hills and rivers and dales he has ever seen, but especially out of The Hill, The River, The Valley which were for him the first embodiment of the word. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement. — Deepak Chopra

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence ... is not in their interests. — Stephen Hadley

Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay. — Alan Krueger

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner

Intentions count in your actions. — Abu Bakr

The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists' puppets. — C.S. Lewis

Emotional pain is a terrible thing to endure, but the solution is not anything unbiblical. — Lois Mowday Rabey

Which demomstrates the sad poverty of English launguage ... — Susanna Clarke