Valeriani Bead Quotes & Sayings

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours. — Jay Parini

The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it; — Julian Barnes

I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If a character is a scoundrel or a liar you think you know them, but then I can bring some emotion to them and they become much fuller than you ever imagined. So what I try to do is have a story where you don't quite know where it's going, and characters who you don't quite know where they're going. — Richard Shepard

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped. — Bryant H. McGill

One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized — Amit Abraham

It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being. — Pam Brown

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive. — Don King

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty - what difference does it make what your decisions are? — Idries Shah

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make. — Dierks Bentley

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. — Nathan Myhrvold

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate. — Arthur Rudolph

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens. — Emir Kusturica

In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps. — Chesty Puller

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert

So just because I gave the right name to a bit of colored cloth you conclude that I'm not mad. — Paulo Coelho