Mizue Murakami Quotes & Sayings

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! — Alexander Pope

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be. — John Donne

My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture. — John Grisham

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand. — Joanna Southcott

His natural taciturnity was in his favour; nothing could be more calculated to give people, especially people with property (Soames had no other clients), the impression that he was a safe man. And he was safe. [ ... ] How could he fall, when his soul abhorred circumstances which render a fall possible - a man cannot fall off the floor! — John Galsworthy

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed! — Robert Browning

You know that person on your left shoulder who tells you that you can't do it or that you're not good enough? Tell that person to GET LOST! — Dawn M. Plass

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. — M.I.A.

I've made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy. — Erika M. Anderson

On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant. — E. O. Wilson