Unstormy Quotes & Sayings

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. — Rudolf Arnheim

The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable. — William Wendt

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster. — Bill Toomey

Alyosha," she murmured again, "look out the door, see if mama is eavesdropping." "Very well, Lise, I will look, only wouldn't it be better not to look? Why suspect your mother of such meanness?" "Meanness? What meanness? That she's eavesdropping on her daughter is her right, it's not meanness," Lise flared up. "And you may rest assured, Alexei Fyodorovich, that when I myself am a mother and have a daughter like me, I shall certainly eavesdrop on her." "Really, Lise? That's not good." "Oh, my God, what's mean about it? If it were an ordinary social conversation and I eavesdropped, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To every administrator, in peaceful, unstormy times, it seems that the entire population entrusted to him moves only by his efforts, and in this consciousness of his necessity every administrator finds the chief rewards for his labors and efforts. It is understandable that, as long as the historical sea is calm, it must seem to the ruler-administrator in his frail little bark, resting his pole against the ship of the people and moving along with it, that his efforts are moving the ship. But once a storm arises, the sea churns up, and the ship begins to move my itself, and then the delusion is no longer possible. The ship follows its own enormous, independent course, the pole does not reach the moving ship, and the ruler suddenly, from his position of power, from being a source of strength, becomes an insignificant, useless, and feeble human being. — Leo Tolstoy

You're always gonna have your anorexics and you're always gonna have your bulimics. I'm hoping that young girls will look up to the girls that are the size 4, 6, and 8's, and know that super super skinny is not pretty - just ask any guy! — Jenny McCarthy

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium. — Lauren Bacall

Pain is a pleasure in disguise. — Debasish Mridha

Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood. — Kevin Systrom

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long. — Charlie Daniels

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself. — Auliq Ice

I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me? — Charles Schwab

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. — Thomas A. Edison

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you. — Oswald Spengler

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it
even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Selfishness keeps man blind through life. — Hazrat Inayat Khan