Paulken Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. — E. J. Hughes

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — C. G. Jung

There is nothing to fear other than my mind. — Shantideva

An education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that inculcates a particular vision of the good life by inscribing or infusing that vision into the heart (the gut) by means of material, embodied practices. And this will be true even of the most instrumentalist, pragmatic programs of education (such as those that now tend to dominate public schools and universities bent on churning out "skilled workers") that see their task primarily as providing information, because behind this is a vision of the good life that understands human flourishing primarily in terms of production and consumption. Behind the veneer of a "value-free" education concerned with providing skills, knowledge, and information is an educational vision that remains formative. — James K.A. Smith

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir ...
Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through.
Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it ...
Flies do, too! — Stephen Sondheim

Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia. — Richard Corliss

It's difficult to grieve for an idea. — Melinda Salisbury

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food; — Elizabeth Goudge

The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones. — Norman Vincent Peale

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me. — Alan Cumming

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. — Dean Wareham

Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them. — Robert Cheeke

Love, like virtue, is its own reward. — John Vanbrugh