Naoyasu Quotes & Sayings

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation. — Robert Smithson

Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to be subjected to another person's limitations or expectations. — Jackie Battenfield

Some time later there was a knock at his door. He was surprised to find it was now evening and the room was quite dark. The knock sounded again. The landlord was at the door. The landlord began to talk, but Strange could not understand him. This was because the man had a pineapple in his mouth. How he had managed to cram the whole thing in there, Strange could not imagine. Green, spiky leaves emerged slowly out of his mouth and then were sucked back in again as he spoke. Strange wondered if perhaps he ought to go and fetch a knife or a hook and try and fish the pineapple out, in case the landlord should choke. But at the same time he did not care much about it. 'After all,' he thought with some irritation, 'it is his own fault. He put it there. — Susanna Clarke

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you. — Anthony Bourdain

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo

Trust is won not given. — Tobsha Learner

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar. — Homer

I'm just passionately in love with my kids. — Sheena Easton

So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all. — Susan Pogorzelski

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me. — Stephen Chbosky

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not — Gorgias

She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her. — Sarah J. Maas

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics. — Elaine Pagels

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. — A.R. Ammons

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do. — Peace Pilgrim