Tvedten Gallery Quotes & Sayings

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. — Virgil Thomson

Taking a trip with the Air Force Special Operations Wing folks is not like a flight on a normal airliner. For one thing, passengers and crew are all armed to the teeth. The seating is awful, the noise is incredible, and there is no movie. Your stewardess is likely to be a guy wearing a shoulder holster, and he will not bring you a pillow. — Frank Antenori

To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time. — Bindi Irwin

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. — Brian Ferneyhough

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. — Lily Tomlin

I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

The wave uniting with its depth is yoga. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal. — William Of Ockham

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind. — Maria Montessori

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem. — Blaise Pascal

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't? — Sarah Vowell

Mood is painted in the margins: you create the image by negative space, dancing around it without ever saying it. 9. — Chuck Wendig

Having faced adversity and survived it, he's unlike others who haven't. — Peter Gray