Scaserv Quotes & Sayings

Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium. No more heebie-jeebies. No more whim-whams — Stephen King

An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism. It is a symbol of actual life, as opposed to life itself. Life contains death. An image of life, by contrast, excludes it, or else sees in it a unique potential for the affirmation of life.
Whatever it expresses - even destruction and ruin - the artistic image is by definition an embodiment of hope, it is inspired by faith.
Artistic creation is by definition a denial of death. Therefore it is
optimistic, even if in an ultimate sense the artist is tragic.
And so there can never be optimistic artists and pessimistic artists. There can only be talent and mediocrity. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind. — Marcel Proust

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example! — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit. — Maria Montessori

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). — Christopher Hitchens

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful. — DJ Khaled

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person. — Joyce Meyer

I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds. — Minnelli Lucy France

The time groaned by as John made a fool of himself. Eventually, he grew numb to the death and sin around him. He even came to enjoy gallivanting cross-country like a true crusader. His name brought tears of joy or pain of anger to those he left in his wake. The result of his own unresolved pain. — Solange Nicole

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. — Terry Teachout

Be happy without picking flaws. — Victor Hugo