Oniwaka Quotes & Sayings

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis

After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons? — Khaled Hosseini

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. — Robert Creeley

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you. — Rodney Dangerfield

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well. — Wassily Kandinsky

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. — Maurice Strong

Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents the strongest possible threat. The feelings of admiration and of ecstasy induced by them thus mean that we are concerned to admire them from afar. The sun corresponds to that prudent concern. It is all radiance gigantic loss of heat and light, flame, explosion; but remote from men, who can enjoy in safety and quiet the fruits of this cataclysm. To earth belongs the solidity which sustains houses of stone and the steps of men (at least on its surface, for buried within the depths of the earth is the incandescence of lava). — Georges Bataille

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head. — Peter Ustinov

Consider an enemy may become a friend. — Seneca The Younger

Love is a flame; - we have beaconed the world's night.
A city: - and we have built it, these and I.
An emperor: - we have taught the world to die. — Rupert Brooke

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. — Jean Ingelow

The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life. — Ariana Grande

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist ... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks ... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist. — Eugene Delacroix

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. — Frederick William Robertson

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels. — Benedict Cumberbatch