Phidian Art Quotes & Sayings

You don't manage priorities, you have them. — David Allen

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space. — Don DeLillo

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art. — Russell Lynes

Reason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles

If not for the rats you could crawl beneath a bush. A bush. A bench. The alliterative universe. Rats too can pass through that needle's eye to enter heaven ... This box held a refrigerator, the refrigerator is an apartment, a man is in the box ... Wake up on the grass, soaking wet. Dew is the piss of God. 'Another bullshit night in suck city, my father mutters. — Nick Flynn

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip. — Christina Stead

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s. — Katee Sackhoff

That really changed me, when I realized that an excruciating life is worse than an excruciating death. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again. — Brene Brown

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all. — Hilaire Belloc

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves! — Georges Danton