Uchiyama Swenson Quotes & Sayings

We're fascinated by the words
but where we meet is in the silence behind them. — Ram Dass

Whatever circumstance it is, if you always do your best, then you can't beat yourself up, basically. — Lexi Ainsworth

Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today. — Sebastian Janikowski

I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid. — Allie Gonino

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag. — C. Robert Cargill

Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space. — Frances Beinecke

The mind craves ease; it encourages the senses to recognize symbols, to gloss. It makes maps of our kitchen drawers and neighborhood streets; it fashions a sort of algebra out of life. And this is useful, even essential - X is the route to work, Y is the heft and feel of a nickel between your fingers. Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We'd pass out every time we saw - actually saw- a flower. — Anthony Doerr

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.' — Aaron Staton

There was something capricious about God. How could one expect perfect submission from those who are imperfect? How could one create desire and then expect everyone to pull the plug on it? And if God were capricious, then God was imperfect. If God were imperfect, God was not God. — Jerry Pinto

One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should work the same way in epistemology. We want to know what knowledge actually amounts to, not what our folk concept of knowledge is, since, just as with our pretheoretical concept of acidity, it might contain all sorts of misunderstandings and leave out all manner of important things. — Hilary Kornblith

Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth. — Kabir