Powiecie Quotes & Sayings

Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos. — Dean Koontz

On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not exist, because when he is good he is Beethoven and when he is bad he is Haydn. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What was indifference compared to malice? — Victor LaValle

I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career. — Trent Reznor

Evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light. — David Zindell

Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs. — John Patrick Shanley

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this — John Kasich

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind. — Qiu Miaojin

She had one of those tender complexions that after a good cry get all blurred and inflamed, and morbidly alluring — Vladimir Nabokov

Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up. — Lillete Dubey

The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.' — Mark Bradford

Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to perceive ourselves. We want to know the meaning of an experience before we have it. We become frightened of direct experience, and we will go to elaborate lengths to avoid it. — Michael Crichton

We were looking at the sequence, not the shape. — Robin Sloan

Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online. — Cliff Martinez