Michael Crossland Quotes & Sayings

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer

If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself. — Nikki Rowe

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. — Marguerite Duras

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers

There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back ... There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus. — Eric Holder

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey. — Demetri Martin

Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured. — Walter Isaacson

When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then. — Bel Powley

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it. — Rosamund Hodge

Sometimes you don't need everyone on your side, you only need a few. — Karina Halle

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous? — Jenna Morasca

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. — Groucho Marx

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it. — Barbara Johnson

I was put in charge, made a general, and sent into Serbia, where, by dint of my own ingenuity, we served honorably but did not kill a soul. And that, believe me, is very hard with the Serbs, because they are very ingenious themselves, and they have a passion for martyrdom. "I've been a field marshal for two years. I have so many medals that when I wear them I look like a window in a junk shop. — Mark Helprin