Phnixhamsta Quotes & Sayings

What is absolutely certain is that the naturalist view of things is, as I have said, just a picture of the world, not a truth about the world that we can know, nor even a conviction that rests upon a secure rational foundation. — David Bentley Hart

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well. — Amanda Peterson

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon

When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too. — Derek Ridgers

flaps and buttons. She concealed her gray hair — Victor Hugo

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist. — Damien Rice

In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That. — Adyashanti

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. ... Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. — Vladimir Nabokov

If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment? And is not condemnation perhaps merely a form of excitement appropriate to old age? — Bertrand Russell

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small. — Paul Auster