Tarvis Simms Quotes & Sayings

Rain brings us together in one of the last untamed encounters with nature that we experience routinely, able to turn the suburbs and even the city wild. Huddled with our fellow humans under construction scaffolding to escape a deluge, we are bound in the memory and mystery of exhilarating, confounding, life-giving rain. — Cynthia Barnett

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain ... — Paul Gauguin

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind. — Boyd Rice

The guitar," I said, "will only obey its master."
"Yeah," Cole agreed, "but Grace isn't here." He grinned at me slyly. — Maggie Stiefvater

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did. — James Madison

Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin — B. H. Roberts

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back. — Fred Allen

Science does not deal with subjective experience ... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have. — Terence McKenna

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do. — Ben Vereen

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch. — Marvin Sapp

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see
they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. — Paul Auster