Naharayim Quotes & Sayings

Instead of being fascinated by the things around us, we now try so hard to fascinate others by the things on us. — Ika Natassa

I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them. — Emily Yoffe

Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
to get from here to there. — Elizabeth Alexander

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years. — Chris Rock

If we are to teach real peace in the world, and if we are to carry on a war against war, we have to begin with the children. -Mahatma Ghandi — Michael Gallegos Borresen

Where the bodies are buried in the desert is a certain world, Counselor. Where they are simply left in the street is another. That is a country heretofore unknown to me. But it must have always been there, must it not? — Cormac McCarthy

Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no". — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The cold is getting quite severe already; all the quail have gone, and last night there was a full orchestra of wolves outside the post-station. — Clive Phillipps-Wolley

My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty. — Julia Margaret Cameron

No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years. — Max Von Sydow

It is a very pretty observation of old Isaac Ambrose that the gum which exudes from the tree without cutting is always the best. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon