Mhidirect Quotes & Sayings

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer

Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine. — Howard Schultz

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent. — Simone Elkeles

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. — Rick Warren

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service. — Dick Cheney

Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science. — Stephanie Mills

Disappear while you are alive! The less you talk about yourself, the less you think about yourself, the journey to disappearance begins! Forget about yourself! Disappear! When you go, universe will replace your place! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stress kills, and concentration fulfills. — Franklin Gillette

We, too, will have fellowship with the sublime if we know how to be perfectly obedient to the Word of the Lord. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. — Douglas William Jerrold

Playing bad is always more fun than playing good. — Heather Locklear

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression
a kind of rudimentary theater
as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means. — John Barth

Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it. — Lionel Shriver

I would only believe in a god who could dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is exactly when others insist that it's a sign of being free, fresh, and radical to do what everybody's doing that you might want to take notice and think for yourself. Don't be surprised if this is really hard to do. — Jaron Lanier