Sevince Erkin Quotes & Sayings

I personally don't like depressing subjects, people say, as if mortality is a lifestyle choice, disease and violence and sorrow a matter of taste. — Sarah Moss

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions. — Lee Friedlander

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though. — Ziggy Marley

Workers of the world unite. It's not just a slogan anymore. — Andy Stern

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge. — Jim Otto

One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead ... Why is it that he cannot do what the living do? It is because the thing that gave power to these parts is no longer there. That is the duppy, and that is the most powerful part of any man. Everybody has evil in them, and when a man is alive ... he will not abandon himself to many evil things. But when the duppy leaves the body, it no longer has anything to restrain it and it will do more terrible things than any man ever dreamed of.
- From 'Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica', Zora Neale Hurston, 1938 — Charles A. Cornell

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation ... Not all are destined to get there ... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation. — Paul Klee

Go, little book, and wish to all
Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
A house with lawns enclosing it,
A living river by the door,
A nightingale in the sycamore! — Robert Louis Stevenson

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf

Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong. — Soren Kierkegaard

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Out of deference to tradition I did wear a hat to church, weddings, ceremonial occasions, and when my head was cold. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands. — William Ellery Channing