Monteverdis Lorfeo Quotes & Sayings

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world? — Susan Cain

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities. — Debi Mazar

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom. — Sheldon Vanauken

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird. — Willow Smith

Sun, moon and stars, are objects that already existed in the foundation of human consciousness since birth, in the beginning stage of creation process. — Toba Beta

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. — Francis Thompson

Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early. — Carmelo Anthony

I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed. — Iman

I dub thee Toadsticker," I said. "Slayer of miscreants, opener of packages, occasional carver of baked turkeys. Let all men hear, and know mild caution." I swear the steel flickered. — Frank Tuttle

The best part of being a nanny, Katya thought, was reading children's books aloud to enraptured children like Tricia, for no one had read such books aloud to her when she'd been a little girl. There hadn't been such books in the Spivak household on County Line Road, nor would there have been any time for such interludes. — Joyce Carol Oates

[...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...] — Jose Saramago

People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand
what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for
Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind. — Terry Tempest Williams

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied. — H.E. Bates

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words. — Terence McKenna

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience. — James McHenry