Rhynia Major Quotes & Sayings

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. — Yoko Ono

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe. — George Vaillant

Got any good ideas, soldier?" "Lots of them. Somebody gunned Geiger. Somebody got gunned by Geiger, who ran away. Or it was two other fellows. Or Geiger was running a cult and made blood sacrifices in front of that totem pole. Or he had chicken for dinner and liked to kill his chickens in the front parlor. — Raymond Chandler

No one can endure his own solitude. — Andre Malraux

Hope can get you through anything. — Jamie Ford

Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. — Samuel Johnson

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it. — J.M. Barrie

History is not history unless it is the truth. — Abraham Lincoln

It is not about how much you give, it is about how much you can let go with your mind. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in. — William Barclay

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.' — Conor Oberst

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter. — Russel Honore

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in. — Sam Taylor-Wood

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum. — George Mikes