Stiften Kopen Quotes & Sayings

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them. — Hugh Reginald Haweis

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking. — Brian Wilson

Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect. — Herbert Spencer

You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don't, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after. — John Boyd

I'm drawing a diagram of what time looks like if you're looking straight into it - like looking down a tunnel and seeing a circle, if the tunnel were an angry ten-dimensional crab, which is what, in vastly oversimplified terms, we mean by the human word time. — Austin Grossman

the cloak of Sorrow: O — W.B.Yeats

Nobody telling everybody about somebody." This sums up the Great Commission quite succinctly. — Matthew Everhard

The Strict Father model takes as background the view that life is difficult and that the world is fundamentally dangerous. — George Lakoff

... * to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment ... — Sylvia Plath

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. — Grandmaster Flash

By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university. — Kimberley Nixon

I am simply one "hell" of a butler. — Black Butler

Do you love me with an all-consuming devotion that rules out all other loves? — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington