Michael Teal Quotes & Sayings

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. — Dorothy Parker

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius

It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice — Morgan Matson

An artist in this nuthouse century is like a man running an obstacle race fitted out with all the gadgets of our riotous technology. He gets blown a mile into the air on a jet of liquid helium, shuttles about on little rocket tubes, plunges into the deeps of the ocean, shoots out again a hundred miles into the space while lurid sights and sounds shred his senses. Every year, every month, and 'panoptic' work appears and warps his consciousness into a new shape. Knowledge itself is in a molten, a plasmatic state and what titanic electromagnetic grip of intellect would be required to lock it solid long enough to reach artistic fusion point? The damned language becomes obsolete as it clatters from the typewriter. — Paul Ableman

A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation. — Barack Obama

Loneliness burns in towers of fire around us — Christopher Poindexter

Weddings mainly are for drinkers. — Jack Black

It's as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision. — Ransom Riggs

The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives. — Doug Peacock

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime. — Andrew Dominik

The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later. — Margaret Atwood