Shirado Kennel Quotes & Sayings

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss. — Henry Ward Beecher

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? — Rebecca Solnit

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record — David Coleman

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back. — Rachel Cusk

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

As part of the logic of human sociality, the internal cohesion of a group is in direct proportion to the degree of threat it perceives from the outside. It follows that anyone who wants to unite a nation, especially one that has been deeply fractured, must demonise an adversary or, if necessary, invent an enemy. For the Turks it was the Armenians. For the Serbs it was the Muslims. For Stalin it was the bourgeoisie or the counter-revolutionaries. For Pol Pot it was the capitalists and intellectuals. For Hitler it was Christian Europe's eternal Other, the Jews. — Jonathan Sacks

You have to promote yourself; you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am! — Craig Roberts

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. — Thornton Wilder

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age. — Kay Panabaker

I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular. — Alan Green

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. — Cullen Hightower

If one fish nibbles my toes I'm going to lose all testosterone and scream like a little girl in front of you. They won't will they? — Anne Eliot

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen. — Ryan McGinness