Seebeck Gallery Quotes & Sayings

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else. — George Cukor

God sends us the poor to try us ... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity. — William Penn

You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers? — Ray Bradbury

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing. — Zephyr Teachout

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. — Bryant McGill

Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and the left, the hemispheres of reason and imagination. She discovered as a child that a closed book is a darkness anyone can enter, not a cary darkness like a basement or a storm, but a comforting one that wrapped her up neatly inside a world she could control. — Jenny Hubbard

The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. U.S. tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the U.S. borders and outside the U.S. borders. — Van Jones

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone. — Robert Carlyle

We are not our station in life. We are us - the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close. — Pierce Brown

It's impossible to want what I want and in the shape I want it, and share life with others besides. I had to know how to be alone and how to let so much wanting do its work, save me or destroy me ... — Julio Cortazar

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink. — Jacques Barzun