Supplice Chinois Quotes & Sayings

When you're off saving the world, you'll come to a point where you discover it was just yourself that needed saving. — Atle Jarnaes Leroy

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours. — Natalie MacMaster

Omer took a deep breath and stood up. 'It's a bad history without a doubt, he said. Nothing to be proud of.' He closed his eyes, turning his face to the side, right into the sun. 'So what are we going to do about it?' Then he opened his eyes, made a little bow, and put his hand out toward the avenue, as if to offer her the street. — Naomi Shibab Nye

And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper
to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp edges, but mostly to be cautious of what is written on it. — Salvador Plascencia

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. — Charles Caleb Colton

Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. — Steve Jobs

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past. — Harold Rosenberg

She didn't know where the factory was, but she didn't need to - the city unfolded itself before her just as every other vision had, directing her toward Emery Thane, for she ran through the secrets of his heart. — Charlie N. Holmberg

The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the Florentine light. Years vanished, decades were erased, and he was again the boy who had come here to the feast of art. — Pete Hamill

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom. — Margaret Walker

Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here. — Justin Trudeau