Sumarokova Atelier Quotes & Sayings

The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes
Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
Of machine within machine within machine. — Wallace Stevens

My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore. — Qiu Miaojin

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. — James Russell Lowell

People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile
it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent. — John F. Kennedy

What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives. — Chanctetinyea J.J. Ouellette

When you lay down with neglect & sleep around with excuses, you wake up with failure ...
When you marry your goals & remain intimate with your vision, you'll give birth to your dreams. — Jay Danzie

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. — John Lasseter

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words. — Charlie Haden

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to. — Graham Hawkes

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living. — Elisabeth Murdoch

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent. — Thomas Kuhn

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage. — Lark Voorhies