Sandholt Reykjav K Quotes & Sayings

Pride does not listen. It knows. — Kevin Vanhoozer

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. — Halldor Laxness

Naturally the question suggests itself, Why did these people want the river now when nobody had wanted it in the five preceding generations? Apparently it was because at this late day they thought they had discovered a way to make it useful; for it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlantic, or Sea of Virginia. — Mark Twain

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. — William R. Alger

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist. — Susan Griffin

There is no music in a "rest" that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody. — John Ruskin

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement. — Walter E. Williams

failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration. — Ed Catmull

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off. — Shirley Maclaine

Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip. — Megan Shepherd

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it. — Eleanor Catton

Every human being is under construction from conception to death. — Billy Graham

When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them. — Euripides

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment. — Jack White

I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions. — Jackee Harry