Mercy Andrea Dworkin Quotes & Sayings

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven. — Bethany Hamilton

It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he is an artist in divining a great deal from the little that he has felt. Artist are by no means people of great passion, but they frequently present themselves as such, unconsciously sensing that others give greater credence to the passions they portray if the artist's own life testifies to his experience in this area. We need only let ourselves go, not control ourselves, give free play to our wrath or our desire, and the whole world immediately cries: how passionate he is! But there really is something significant in a deeply gnawing passion that consumes and often swallows up an individual: whoever experiences this surely does not describe it in dramas, music, or novels. Artists are frequently unbridled individuals, insofar, that is, as they are not artists: but that is something different. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. — Giovanni Ribisi

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters. — Frederic Raphael

I don't think that anything happens by coincidence ... No one is here by accident ... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason ... — James Redfield

Yale, pointed out that once you let yourself see things this way, lots of things become "musical scores" - although they might never have been intended to be played. — David Byrne

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. — E.Y. Harburg

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you're gone. — Barbara Sher

The last time she'd talked to him was still ... the last time she'd talked to him. Which Georgie still wasn't dealing with. Which she still couldn't accept. Georgie thought about her big, — Rainbow Rowell

Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten — Elizabeth Chandler