Silvias Quotes & Sayings

Fortunately, Paul is much more interesting than most of his interpreters, myself included. — N. T. Wright

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy. — Jerry Seinfeld

We didn't come to earth to get anything. We came to awaken our full potential and infuse this dimension with divine light. — Derek Rydall

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances. — Henri Matisse

"Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her. — George MacDonald

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion.
Every act of perception is art.
So everything that perceives is an artist. — Chris F. Westbury

The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed. — Gerhard Richter

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Leadership is a Western virtue; submission is a biblical virtue. — Brandon J. O'Brien

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds. — John Anderson

Years are not important, my dear. — Faye Dunaway

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. — Virginia Woolf

If God were a theory, the study of theology would be the way to understand Him. But God is alive and in need of love and worship. This is why thinking of God is related to our worship. In an analogy of artistic understanding, we sing to Him before we are able to understand Him. We have to love in order to know. Unless we learn how to sing, unless we know how to love, we will never learn to understand Him. — Abraham Joshua Heschel