Pleuger Henger Quotes & Sayings

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. — Jack Kerouac

If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet. — Willie Aames

When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels ... it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink. — Jon Spencer

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead. — Heather Vogel Frederick

The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to reread it later. There's more sense in books, Cicily, than you'd really believe. Though, of course, they don't teach you anything vital that you can't learn for yourself. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit. — Anne Sexton

I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music. — Charli XCX

We're becoming slaves; the war scatters us in all directions, takes away everything we own, snatches the bread from out of our mouths; let me at least retain the right to decide my own destiny, to laugh at it, defy it, escape it if I can. A slave? Better to be a slave than a dog who thinks he's free as he trots along behind his master. She listened to the sound of men and horses passing by. They don't even realise they're slaves, she said to herself, and I, I would be just like them if a sense of pity, solidarity, the "spirit of the hive" forced me to refuse to be happy. — Irene Nemirovsky

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain. — Max De Pree

We need someone to turn things around in America. — Scott Walker

A poem a day keeps the doctor away. — Jill Telford

In order to do something you must be something. — James Stockdale