Skjonsby Artist Quotes & Sayings

Why worry when you have nothing to fear. Why fear when no one else worries. — Brain

She had driven far down the winding road, and the lights of the diner were long since out of sight, when she noticed that she was enjoying the taste of the cigarette he had given her: it was different from any she had ever smoked before. She held the small remnant to the light of the dashboard, looking for the name of the brand. There was no name, only a trademark. Stamped in gold on the thin, white paper there stood the sign of the dollar. — Ayn Rand

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. — Bruce Lee

Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence. — Maurice Blanchot

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task. — John Dewey

Why didn't you tell me that the foundation you taught me to stand on is made from quicksand? — Colleen Hoover

Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience." — Jeremy Rifkin

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope

Trip? Could you do me a favor and try not to look so damn pleased with yourself?"
That made him chuckle. "I can't help it. I'm about to bang my old girlfriend in my old room. You know how many times I jerked off right there just thinking about it? And now you're here. And I totally get to nail your ass."
"Yeah, um, you go anywhere near my ass and you'll be whacking off alone again. — T. Torrest

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man. — Kevin Durant

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again. — Sam Allardyce

Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home. — George Herbert

Booboo, we've been over this. I can't be asleep if we're talking. — David Foster Wallace

Spending $100 million on a fancy gym is completely unremarkable in contemporary American higher education. Yet $10 million for a really good online biology course that could serve millions of students is seen as an outlandish, unaffordable expense. — Kevin Carey