Srully Stein Quotes & Sayings

There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes. — Ngaio Marsh

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. — Rumi

To feel controlled is to lose interest. — Alfie Kohn

People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them. — Julie Mehretu

If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dreams. — Edward Abbey

Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations ... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher ... We've got it all. — Barack Obama

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day. — Gene Tierney

I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood. — Ravi Teja

Laughter is the only sound left I can make that people will understand. — Anonymous

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body. — Sherwin B. Nuland

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything. — Herbert Jefferson Jr.