Surreally Pretty Quotes & Sayings

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does. — John Gilpin

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character. — Joseph Goebbels

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place. — Curt Schilling

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding. — Donald Miller

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. — John Dryden

There's another surprise!" Sam said. "I've seen your Mystery Man! — Gertrude Chandler Warner

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school. — Gertrude Stein

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining! — Charles Frazier

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. — Freeman Dyson

He still didn't have half an idea how to behave around her. There was a hell of a gap between them in the daylight, a yawning great gap of race, and age, and language that he wasn't sure could ever be bridged. Strange, how the gap dwindled down to nothing at night. They understood each other well enough in the dark. Maybe they'd work it out, in time, or maybe they wouldn't, and that'd be that. Still, he was glad she was there. Made him feel like a proper human man again, instead of just an animal slinking in the woods, trying to scratch his way from one mess to another. — Joe Abercrombie

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light ... — Berenice Abbott