Printable Turning 40 Quotes & Sayings

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. — Bridget Riley

The luminosity below me seemed confined directly to the area to be lighted; there was no diffusion of light upward or beyond the limits the lamps were designed to light. This was effected, I was told, by lamps designed upon principles resulting from ages of investigation of the properties of light waves and the laws governing them which permit Barsoomian scientists to confine and control light as we confine and control matter. The light waves leave the lamp, pass along a prescribed circuit and return to the lamp. There is no waste nor, strange this seemed to me, are there any dense shadows when lights are properly installed and adjusted, for the waves in passing around objects to return to the lamp, illuminate all sides of them. The — Edgar Rice Burroughs

We must recognise the humanity of the other and relate on that level.' 'For the world to be beautiful, everyone must be included.' 'Everyone loved and supported in being who they are would see the world beautiful. — Carolyn Stock

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality. — Tilden Edwards

As long as the people who kinda wanna go kill other people are going to go kill other people who kinda wanna go kill other people, you're killing all the right people and opening up all the best parking spaces. — Doug Stanhope

We waltzed Lisztlessly. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon

I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity. — Leonard Seet

I am Bard, and by my hand was the dragon slain and your treasure delivered. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film. — Aurora Guerrero

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history. — Joshua Oppenheimer

There's always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another. — Henning Mankell

I'm a rock and roll singer. — Adam Ant

The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know. — Lao-Tzu

You know, there's nothing you could tell me that would change my mind about you."

"That's 'cause you know me now, June. You don't ever want to know about me then. I don't want to know about me then."

"Think I would have ever ripped my back open on barbed wire to get away from you?"

"No - no, Jesus, June. Are you crazy? I could never, I could never - "

"Then I'm okay knowing you, whenever. I don't care what you say - you're a good guy. You're the best kind of guy. The things you've done for me, I - "

She couldn't speak, then. The glow was almost completely gone - it would never return if she started bawling.

"Hey, hey - okay. Okay, baby. It's okay. — Charlotte Stein

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober