Riedmann Artist Quotes & Sayings

The sattvic perform sacrifices with their entire mind fixed on the purpose of the sacrifice. Without thought of reward, they follow the teachings of the scriptures. 12 The rajasic perform sacrifices for the sake of show and the good it will bring them. 13 The tamasic perform sacrifices ignoring both the letter and the spirit. They omit the proper prayers, the proper offerings, the proper food, and the proper faith. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

He had strong, steady hands, and I could tell from looking at them there was little he couldn't do. Mossy always said you could tell everything you needed to know about a man from his hands. Some hands, she told me, were leaving hands. They were the wandering sort that slipped into places they shouldn't, and they would wander right off again because those hands just couldn't stay still. Some hands were worthless hands, fit only to hold a drink or flick ash from a cigar, and some were punishing hands that hit hard and didn't leave a mark and those were the ones you never stayed to see twice.
But the best hands were knowing hands, Mossy told me with a slow smile. Knowing hands were capable; they could soothe a horse or woman. They could take things apart
including your heart
and put them back together better than before. Knowing hands were rare, but if you found them, they were worth holding, at least for a little while. — Deanna Raybourn

It would be unfair to measure him against a fictional standard that he could never possibly achieve. — Karen Witemeyer

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working. — Ciara Bravo

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness
an incompleteness
in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it. — Willard Gaylin

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied. — Graham Greene

Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er. — John Webster

Service, which is nothing other than a modern echo of noblesse oblige, and generally undertaken in the same spirit of benign condescension. — William Deresiewicz

Every man has one destiny, — Mario Puzo

What kind of authors do you like? I asked, speaking in respectful tones to this man two years my senior. — Haruki Murakami

I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy. — Ichiro Suzuki

Written words are divine footprints on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh* — Thom Yorke

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful? — Stacy Schiff