Uenced Quotes & Sayings

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist. — David Bowie

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it. — John Mackey

I took some time out for life. — James L. Brooks

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It's easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Rilke had a line...something about fishes. Or was that by someone else? Too much had already been written, too many pages, too many words. Maybe writers would be better to just stop, himself included, so that people could catch up. Maybe one day they'd reach a limit. No more books would be able to fit into the universe's bookshelves, not another paragraph squeezed in, not even a punctuation mark. Writers would have to find something else to do. It might be the best thing. — Eric Gabriel Lehman

Just take deep breaths and believe in the impossible — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name. — Colin Hanks

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. — El DeBarge

coming to Christ! And until these are opened by the sweet influences of the Divine Spirit, they must be forever closed to anything like coming to Christ. DEPRAVED AFFECTIONS — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

How come I never meet any nice girls? — Dante Alighieri