Savviness Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. — Guillaume Apollinaire

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all. — Beryl Markham

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.' — Toby Jones

Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed. — Barbara Brennan

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following. — Duncan Sheik

It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done. — Karl Ove Knausgard

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death. — Captain Beefheart

We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign affairs. The presidency, not just President Obama, but the presidency in recent years has lost some of the terrain that they used to dominate in the making of foreign policy. I think President Obama has to make a serious effort to regain it because he lost some of it himself. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful. — Tom Selleck

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change. — A.C. Crispin

Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god. — Suzy Kassem