Uranites Quotes & Sayings

When people feel the need to declare that they are not basic ... that's when you know they're basic. — Donna Lynn Hope

My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery. — Melissa Rivers

Accepting a religion may be more like enjoying a poem, or following the football. It might be a matter of immersion in a set of practices. Perhaps the practices have only an emotional point, or a social point. Perhaps religious rituals only serve necessary psychological and social ends. The rituals of birth, coming of age, or funerals do this. It is silly to ask whether a marriage ceremony is true or false. People do not go to a funeral service to hear something true, but to mourn, or to begin to stop mourning, or to meditate on departed life. It can be as inappropriate to ask whether what is said is true as to ask whether Keats's ode to a Grecian urn is true. The poem is successful or not in quite a different dimension, and so is Chartres cathedral, or a statue of the Buddha. They may be magnificent, and moving, and awe-inspiring, but not because they make statements that are true or false. — Simon Blackburn

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie

Leisure is gone,
gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. — George Eliot

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research. — Andrew Bird

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. — Ayn Rand

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. — Howard Gossage

Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result. — Ned Herrmann

Repetition is the mother of character and skill. — Rick Warren

Whatever is your present experience, you can recognize the spaciousness that allows it to be. You are this spaciousness, this awareness, this love. Deeper love and more spacious awareness is the best lesson you can get from any experience. — David Deida

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. — Piet Mondrian

Dead metaphors make strong idols. — Marcia Falk