Russo Philosopher Quotes & Sayings

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish

I can find my biography in every fable that I read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things. — Lee Mi-sook

Like water our ideals for writing what seems at first to be a calling to pen a masterpiece, it at first can be pure, fluid even (words can come easily) but we also have to learn to work with what our eyes glaze over as weak substitutes, words that we think have no substance to what we are learning towards. What is every poet's intention? Their intention is to forge, nullify, create, defend, fill the reader with the awe and inspiration that every poet themselves craves. They want to carve a name for themselves in the annals of history, leave a not so quiet legacy behind. Poets want immortality or rather they want their words to become immortal. Perhaps even Marlowe and Shakespeare had discussions about this. — Abigail George

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em. — Peter Blegvad

I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thing - at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets. — Jeff Buckley

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. — Chogyam Trungpa

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam. — Cameron Conaway

But - but in falling, we fly, don't we? We fly vertically. That's the paradox of vertical flight. Falling is the only way we can fly. — Emil Ostrovski

If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch. — Darcy Tucker

I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game. — Will Packer