Papahen Quotes & Sayings

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components. — Robert Reynolds

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

These dreams are almost like reentering a part in a book that was dog-eared, continuing right where I left off the last time I awoke. — E.J. Mellow

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up. — Lizzy Caplan

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago. — Piet Hein

To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful. Even using hair product or makeup implied misguided priorities. Like you thought how things looked mattered, instead of how they worked. We liked to look at attractive people. We expected it of our movie stars and TV characters. But we did not respect it. We knew physical attractiveness was inversely correlated with intelligence, because look at us. — Max Barry

Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice. — Jeff Strand

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are. — Nicky Gumbel

There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth. — John Piper

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs. — Mathias Rust

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously. — Steve Maraboli

Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs. — Keith Sweat

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It — Thomas Paine

Oh, hell." He landed beside me, soft-footed on the pine needles. "This is beginning to have all the elements of a farce, isn't it? Too many villains, and nothing to tie them up with. — Mary Stewart