Pennellata Quotes & Sayings

Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations. — Guy Debord

If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. — Frederick Lenz

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone. — Samuel West

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning. — Ken Wyatt

If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success. — Wasif Ali Wasif

We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? — Beatrix Farrand

Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching rains in the winters, fog off-shore in the summers, salmon surging up the streams - all these together make up a particular state of mind, a place-specific intelligence shared by all the humans that dwell therein, but also by the coyotes yapping in those valleys, by the bobcats and the ferns and the spiders, by all beings who live and make their way in that zone. Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue. — David Abram

I'm a pyro. I love exploding things. — Gia Coppola

I have a very small public. — V.S. Naipaul

I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be. The people who lived around our flocks seemed to always love everyone around them. Even though they aren't always happy and can't always afford the bills, they are still glad to be alive. — Shannon A. Thompson

The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself. — Dalai Lama

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation. — Henry Petroski

Do you think that horrible servant girl will get my body pregnant?' she asked as we trotted down the steps. 'I've heard about you girl orphans having no morals and having babies for fun and selling them to buy bicycles and fashion accessories and onions and stuff. — Jasper Fforde