Stehouwers Frozen Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. — David Byrne

Not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours. — A.R. Ammons

But in republics there is more vitality, more hatred, and more desire for revenge. The memory of former freedom simply will not leave the people in peace. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it. — Amy Bloom

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great. — John Chrysostom

Did you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough oxygen at birth? — Cherise Sinclair

Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs? Maybe it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in the world. The note, the scale, the chord; melodies, harmonies, arrangements; symphonies, ragas, chinese operas,jazz, the blues: that such things should exist, that we should have discovered the magical intervals and distances that yield the poor cluster of notes, all within the span of a human hand from which we can build our cathedrals of sound, is alchemical a mystery as mathematics, or wine, or love. Maybe the birds taught us. Maybe not. Maybe we are just creatures in search of exaltation. We don't have much of it. Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways deficient. Song turns them into something else. Song shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world. — Salman Rushdie

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money. — Jasmine Guinness

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon