Moribus Et Artibus Quotes & Sayings

Looking back on those childhood days, I carry in my mind a picture of grandmother in her rocking chair with a contented owlet sprawled across her aproned lap. Once, on entering a room while she was taking her afternoon nap, I saw one of the owlets had crawled up her pillow til its head was snuggled under her ear. Both grandmother and the owlet were snoring. — Ruskin Bond

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole. — Jason Winer

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live. — Narendra Modi

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. — Edgar Allan Poe

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can't use what you can't find. — Peter Morville

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. — Plautus

The role of self: Now we come to the role behind all roles: the role of self. In this moment of meditation practice you have the opportunity to observe yourself as you begin to speak. What self is speaking? At what point do you inhabit the role of "me"? What is it like to be that "me"? As you listen, are you listening through a filter of conditioning? Is that a self? I invite you to take the time in your practice to speak from silence and to listen deeply. What remains when you step out of roles, even for an instant? As the mind tumbles forward in the Pause, does it have to land in an identity in order to relate to your meditation partner or partners? In the changing moment of Trust Emergence, is there any role or anyone to believe in it? — Gregory Kramer

What, what am I to do with all of this life? — Gwendolyn Brooks