Thiriet Drive Quotes & Sayings

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide. — Oli Anderson

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

If he wanted to pray, she told him, he should go to a church, not the library. — Wally Lamb

Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino. — Nick Joaquin

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it. — Charles Caleb Colton

I stay off the Internet. — Chaske Spencer

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. — Jasper Johns

Talent will take you miles;
character will take you around the world. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives. — Russell M. Nelson

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter. — Allan Gurganus

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages. — Leonard Bernstein

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

I just like to explore honest thoughts or feelings. How I'm feeling at the time. I want to explore it and talk about it and have a conversation with the audience. I want to throw something out there, see how they feel about it, and tell them how I feel about it. I know that's really relaxed, but that's the most fun. — Jerrod Carmichael

We'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Real good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it. — David Foster Wallace

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress. — Doug Stanhope