Spradling Euro Quotes & Sayings

Risk is an essential part of progress. — Robert G. Allen

American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk. Two people greet each other happily, with friendliness, but might know each other for years before venturing basic questions about each other's backgrounds....In the East, I've heard it said, there's intimacy without friendship; in the West, there's friendship without intimacy. — Karan Mahajan

Relax and be Revitalize! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a tower window, an act of hopeless optimism in the service of bottomless longing. Every great record or novel or comic book convenes the first meeting of a fan club whose membership stands forever at one but which maintains chapters in every city
in every cranium
in the world. Art, like fandom, asserts the possibility of fellowship in a world built entirely from the materials of solitude. The novelist, the cartoonist, the songwriter, knows the gesture is doomed from the beginning but makes it anyway, flashes his or her bit of mirror, not on the chance that the signal will be seen or understood but as if such a chance existed. — Michael Chabon

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things. — Erez Lieberman Aiden

To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that — Ingmar Bergman

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. — Seth Green

I never keep anything beautiful in the closet. — Betsey Johnson