Nercessian Foundation Quotes & Sayings

When a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was ... this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art. — Orhan Pamuk

Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed. — Ivan Chermayeff

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating. — Jessica Lange

She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had. — Laini Taylor

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me. — Stephenie Meyer

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. — Saint John Chrysostom

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Don't act as if you have hundreds of years to live. Live, while it is in your power and live it great. — Timothy Pina

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault