Paley Center 2012 Quotes & Sayings

The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It still is, and I know of no pain that art cannot assuage. For some, music, for some, pictures, for me, primarily, poetry, whether found in poems or in prose, cuts through noise and hurt, opens the wound to clean it, and then gradually teaches it to heal itself. Wounds need to be taught to heal themselves. — Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else. — Mary Gaitskill

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired. — Sri Chinmoy

I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot. — Gregory David Roberts

I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I've seen all the shows, I've seen all the movies, but ultimately I just want a 2-hour movie that takes me to another time and place - something that entertains me. — Damon Lindelof

I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America. — Chris Matakas

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. — Thomas Friedman

whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter. — J.D. Vance

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want. — Danielle LaPorte

You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you. — Seanan McGuire

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts. — Charles Bukowski

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring. — Orison Swett Marden

It can always be transformed into an avenue of information. — Slick Rick

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede. — Edward Coke

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time. — Rick James