Lennan Kelly Quotes & Sayings

Because I came to see
That I should never have been a first-rate potter.
I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it,
That a man should have a consuming passion
To do something for which he lacks the capacity?
Could a man be said to have a vocation
To be a second-rate potter? To be, at best,
A competent copier, possessed by the craving
To create, when one is wholly uncreative?
I don't think so. For I came to see,
That I had always known, at the secret moments,
That I didn't have it in me. There are occasions
When I am transported- a different person,
Transfigured in the vision of some marvellous creation,
And I feel what the man must have felt when he made it.
But nothing I made ever gave me that contentment-
That state of utter exhaustion and peace
Which comes in dying to give something life... — T. S. Eliot

When you think about it, I really should be punished. I think a figging is the only way to go. — Sophie Oak

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. — John Maynard Keynes

What is so bad about being compared to women?" Kuni said. "Half the world is made of women. — Ken Liu

No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern. — Stephen Jay Gould

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals. — Louis Garrel

He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one. — Heraclitus

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent. — Phil Donahue

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.' — Tori Amos

Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here! — Groucho Marx

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me. — Al Pacino

One doesn't know what one doesn't know. — Ivan Turgenev

They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything. — Upton Sinclair