Palmgren Angle Quotes & Sayings

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair ... which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece. — Bill Griffith

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. — Lester Bangs

Magic is a dark and elemental force, not just a lot of sparkly wands and crystal balls and talking goldfish. — Cassandra Clare

Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity. — Peter Brook

Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean. — Alex Shoumatoff

Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything; man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet. — Anthony Burgess

I can't imagine doing anything except acting. — Sean Bean

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted. — Lauren Beukes

Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness. — Jennie Fields

First fill your heart with an abundance of love. Then let the light of your love enlighten the whole world. — Debasish Mridha

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything. — Tibor Kalman