Purple Pickaxe Quotes & Sayings

Tonight I am all in flames. — Anais Nin

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. — Erich Fromm

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. — Robert Wilson

God nowhere asks anyone to have a large church. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about. — Jim Cymbala

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. — Max De Pree

When Clive stood from the piano and shuffled to the doorway to turn out the studio lights, and looked back at the rich, beautiful chaos that surrounded his toils, and had once more a passing thought, the minuscule fragment of a suspicion that he would not have shared with a single person in the world, would not have even have committed to his journal and whose key word he shaped in his mind only with reluctance ; the thought was, quite simply, that it might be going too far to say that he was ... a genius. A genius. Though he sounded it guiltily on his inner ear, he would not let the word reach his lips. — Ian McEwan

I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that. — Taylor Swift

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. — Ted Nelson

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. — Idries Shah

She wants to distract me that night, keep us from revisiting the conversation about the fuse. I've considered telling her that if she wants to distract me, all she has to do is take her shirt off. — Amie Kaufman

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order. — Alfred Hermann Fried