Symeons Greek Quotes & Sayings

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine. — Chaim Potok

Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness."
"How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many."
The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer. — Robin Jarvis

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working. — Mason Cooley

Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually a book will make itself known. — Jeffrey Littorno

Time heals all wounds or Time wounds all heels. Take your pick ... oh, life's small choices. — Carol Morgan

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.' — Lucy Punch

The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned. — Mason Cooley

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me. — Paul Klee

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. — Mark Van Doren

A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved. — Margaret Atwood

Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt? — Bette Lee Crosby

The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will lose its 'punch' when topical concerns move on to other interests. — Scott Kahn

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail;
Enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death's icy brink,
But is the dance less full of fun? — Richard Francis Burton

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them. — Joseph Sobran

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated. — Amanda Palmer