Lahey Portal Quotes & Sayings

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence. — Hugh Miller

By changing - we become what we always wanted to be. — Debasish Mridha

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. — Hans Hofmann

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. — Dennis Potter

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. — James Freeman Clarke

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around. — Robbie Lawler

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake. — David Schwimmer

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled ... some imprecision clarified, some name Named ... and some change managed. — Gregory Maguire

It goes without saying that you could not vanquish the ignorant masses around you; little by little, as you advance in life, you will be obliged to yield and to be swallowed up in the crowd of a hundred thousand human beings; life will stifle you, but you will all the same not have disappeared without having exerted an influence; of women like you, there will be after you perhaps only six, then twelve, and so on, until finally you will become the majority. In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, amazing, astonishing. Man has need of that life and if it doesn't yet exist, he must sense it, wait for it and dream of it, prepare to receive it, and to achieve that he must see and know more than our grandfathers and fathers saw or knew. — Anton Chekhov

The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we would but try. — Kevin J. Anderson

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true. — Laozi

in a crisp block, glinting under the street lights. — Robert Bryndza

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. — Taylor Swift