Stansfield Oils Quotes & Sayings

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously. — Francis Bacon

She chased the song like a hound fast upon a scent. She pursued it through a forest primeval: a dark land planted with musical staves and rests and grown thick with briars of annotation. On she went and on still until she caught sight of the song ahead of her, fleeting and sly. "I see it," she said aloud, though she didn't mean to. — A.S. Peterson

Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle? - the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, THAT ain't a picture! — Mark Twain

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace. — Thomas Merton

Nothing is very important, and few things are important at all. — Isobel English

You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go — Sam

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. — Ray Fitzgerald

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views. — William Hazlitt

Spare us the pout, there's enough lip in the world without you adding to it. — Alan Bradley

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. — Pierre Schaeffer

I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death. — Roland Barthes

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you. — Edward Hirsch

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system. — Marco Rubio