Short Martial Art Quotes & Sayings

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you. — Sanford Meisner

Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth. — Daniel Silva

Wilson was very much school of Montaigne. Like Montaigne, he was not exactly misogynistic but he felt that the challenge of another male mind was the highest sort of human exchange while possession of a beautiful woman was also of intense importance to him. — Gore Vidal

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him. — Flannery O'Connor

If you're feeling frustrated with your progress toward your goals, it's tempting to focus on what you lack that other people seem to have, to obsess over followers, engagement, traffic, or any other benchmark. The reality is that numbers don't necessarily measure success, and they're certainly not a requirement for fulfillment. — Jocelyn K. Glei

The Civil War always moves me. — Suzanne Weyn

*to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard — Eoin Colfer

When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate. — Kimon Nicolaides

These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity. — Alexander H. Stephens

I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softly against my cheek. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and I could not have told you why. — Neil Gaiman