Sissinghurst Quotes & Sayings

In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed — Barack Obama

And all love that had overtaken her would have to be a memory, a truck on the interstate roaring up from the left, a thing she must let pass. — Lorrie Moore

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics. — Nouriel Roubini

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion. — Emmeline Pankhurst

ALCIBIADES: How came the noble Timon to this change?
TIMON: As the moon does, by wanting light to give:
But then renew I could not, like the moon;
There were no suns to borrow of. — William Shakespeare

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all. — Greta Scacchi

The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more excellent than it was before. — H.D.F. Kitto

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream? — Ken Bruen

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page! — Miriam Toews

Living is art.
Breathing and heart beating is music.
Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.
Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.
Life is the most intense art of all. — Jacob Nordby

I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own. — Nathan Sawaya

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