Szczepan Twardoch Quotes & Sayings

Suffering is an illusion. — Gautama Buddha

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. — Laurence Overmire

Personal style is my mom, after some red wine, walking like she intends to restore order and beauty to the world with her posture alone. — Emily Henry

He let a vision of April grow and fill the world. ( ... ) He saw April at the spaceport, holding him in the dark shadows of the blockhouse while the sky flamed above them. We'll go out like that soon, soon, Tod. Squeeze me, squeeze me ... Ah, he'd said, who needs a ship?
Another April, part of her in a dim light as she sat writing; her hair, a crescent of light loving her cheek, a band of it on her brow; then she had seen him and turned, rising, smothered his first word with her mouth. Another April wanting to smile, waiting; and April asleep, and once April sobbing because she could not find a special word to tell him what she felt for him ... — Theodore Sturgeon

People think I am being modest when I tell them I know absolutely nothing about art. But if they show me a piece of student work, I won't have the slightest idea whether it's art or even "good". What I do know is whether such things hang or stand in the houses of the rich - or in the museums where the rich allow their treasures to be seen. And when people understand this, they'll instantly agree with what I said in the first place, that I know absolutely nothing about art. - pg. 76 — Daniel Quinn

I don't need liquor to color the world — Jill Barnett

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more. — Jack White

Going back to legalistic roots contaminates the blood of Jesus. — Sherry K. White

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. — William Shakespeare

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument ... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception. — Winston Churchill

Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain them away. Rather, it demonstrates their physical existence as a fundamental, shared part of human nature. Spiritual experiences cannot be considered irrational, since we have seen that, given their physiological basis, experiencers' descriptions of them are perfectly rational... All human perceptions of material reality can ultimately be documented as chemical reactions in our neurobiology; all our sensations, thoughts, and memories are ultimately reducible to chemistry, yet we feel no need to deny the existence of the material world; it is not less real because our perceptions of it are biologically based... It is not rational to assume that the spiritual reality of core experiences is any less real than the more scientifically documentable material reality. — Sabina Magliocco

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. — George Orwell

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them. — Lord Chesterfield