Obscure Holidays Quotes & Sayings

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish. — Tom Ford

Jeff Davis's name they'll proudly praise, ah ha, ah ha And Lincoln's tomb will be disgraced, ah ha, ah ha The nation's flag will lose its stars The stripes they'll change to rebel bars And we'll all wear gray if the Johnnies get into power — Sarah Vowell

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter Of Alcantara

I thought if I moved away, I could move away from all of it, but the memories were still with me. The fact that I was shy and awkward didn't change just because I changed locations. — Eileen Cook

The future belongs to crowds. — Don DeLillo

Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in. — Romany Malco

I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land. — Anne Waldman

Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk. — Philippe Petit

Do not take to heart everything you hear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

They prayed for it, they want it, but when they got it, they complained. — Orson Scott Card

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven ... — Jack Johnson

Living within artificial, reconstructed, arbitrary environments that are strictly the products of human conception, we have no way to be sure that we know what is true and what is not. We have lost context and perspective. What we know is what other humans tell us. — Jerry Mander

Having found the book which has a message for us, let us not be guilty of the folly of saying we have read it. We might as well say we have breakfasted, as if breakfasting on one day should last us for every day! The book that helps us deserves many readings, for assimilation comes by slow degrees. — Charlotte M. Mason

I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor. — Ray McKinnon