Unbolden Quotes & Sayings

No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one! — Israelmore Ayivor

I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a distance and then come up close but find nothing more to see, it's printed too large. It's not giving me any new information when I come up to it. — Bruce Barnbaum

Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies? — Ellen Ullman

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis. — Albert Finney

The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes. They're working class kids who died in wars and now billionaires want to run abroad to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What patriotism! What love of country! — Bernie Sanders

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another. — Roy Peter Clark

If you're not a king you can wear a hat to be distinguished. And if you're not a king and you don't wear a hat you end up being a nobody. — Juan Pablo Villalobos

You know what we do...and we do it well — Shane

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful. — Zeena Parkins

Mental challenges cause an "adaptive response" to take place in the brain, just like a muscle. Challenges build axon-dendrite "transmitter-receiver" connections. Passive activities such as watching "reality" television do not stimulate or build these connections. We need to be actively involved with our activities, instead of being passive observers. Making and unmaking nerve cell connections (neuroplasticity) dictates how well the brain can handle stress. — Chris Hardy

For a few years, I went down a path where I forgot to be in the moment and enjoy the moment. — Liam Hemsworth