Turknetts Quotes & Sayings

Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it. — Tommy Barnett

How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You can't say your wish out loud. Not when you look up at the stars. If you do, it won't come true. And I can't ... I can't allow that to happen to you. He watched me. I watched him back. — T.J. Klune

I've always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much--because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you're sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room. — Leslie Jamison

Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method. — J.L. Austin

We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer ... then surely we are also permitted doubt. — Yann Martel

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him. — Jim Carrey

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs — Solomon

To attempt to build up theories of art, or to form a new style, would be an act of supreme folly. It would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowledge of thousands of years. On the contrary, we should regard as our inheritance all the successful labours of the past, not blindly following them, but employ simply as guides to find the true path. — Owen Jones Classics

If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head. — Virginia Woolf

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something. — Ai Weiwei

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard

Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame. — Alessandro Baricco

Those who believe in destiny and those who drift without such beliefs are alike the worst among men; only those who act and perform what is right for their station in life are worthy of praise. Man — R.K. Narayan

Long ago, there was only One. One knew everything, but had experienced nothing. And so, One became many - us, people. The One, who is both male and female, did so to experience all things. — Brandon Sanderson