Tengu Man Quotes & Sayings

Don't talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. — Michael Ondaatje

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most. — Andrew S. Gilbert

To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone. — Soman Chainani

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going ... Concentrate on something useful. — Arnold Bennett

For different tastes God created the colors — Eduardo R. Casas

Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well? — Nicolas Chamfort

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron. — John Lothrop Motley

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered
that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me. — Robert Browning

But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary.
When — James Martin

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up. — Sean Quinn

The ocean lives and wanders free, happily to flow gracefully with the wind. — J. Kahele

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence. — John Brunner