Starled Quotes & Sayings

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Abhorrent and beyond inappropriate, reachable only through hours of hiking into the Realm of Really Goddam Wrong. — Sarah Wendell

It was something Brynna had done a report on in school last year. At the time he'd thought it stupid, but he finally got it. Visualization. In order to make something happen, to become something else, you had to see it clearly in your mind. That was the first step of achieving success. Vague dreams never amounted to anything. Only those that were fully seen could manifest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also. — Demosthenes

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi

Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date. — Guillermo Del Toro

Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime.
And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime. — David Levithan

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us." — Michael Emerson

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state. — Martin McGuinness

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. — Wendell Berry

The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions - electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us ... When we cease all argument and debate - both internal and external - our true questions can be heard and answered ... That is the gathering of magic. — Elizabeth Gilbert