Shpendim Nadzaku Quotes & Sayings

The path we're taking is not a road, Kiyo, it's a pier, and it ends someplace where the sea begins. It can't be helped. — Yukio Mishima

She's like a person looking through the wrong end of a telescope, complaining that everything looks small. — Lauren Oliver

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity. — Brian Eno

Perfect. I would have an unbalanced psychopath on my hands armed with immortal supernatural power. This night kept getting better and better. — Courtney Cole

Through cruelty force confesses its powerlessness to achieve omnipotence . . . We see weakness dawning at the very height of force. Unable to admit that total destruction is impossible, the conqueror can only reply to the mute defiance of his defenseless adversary with an ever-growing violence. — Rachel Bespaloff

Please stop, I said politely - he was that big. One should always mind one's manners around big things. — Lish McBride

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits. — Joy Williams

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot. — Jonathan Krohn

I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well. — Carey Mulligan

A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go. — James S.A. Corey

Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power. Art is not part of the machine. Art asks us to think differently, see differently, hear differently, and ultimately to act differently, which is why art has moral force. Ruskin was right, though for the wrong reasons, when he talked about art as a moral force. Art is not about good behaviour, when did you last see a miracle behave well? Art makes us better people because it asks for our full humanity, and humanity is, or should be, the polar opposite of the merely mechanical. We are not part of the machine either, but we have forgotten that. Art is memory - which is quite different [from] history. Art asks that we remember who we are, and usually that asking has to come as provocation - which is why art breaks the rules and the taboos, and at the same time is a moral force. — Jeanette Winterson

Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe