Venskey Quotes & Sayings

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth. — Edward De Bono

Words ruin one's thoughts, paper makes them ridiculous, and even while one is still glad to get something ruined and something ridiculous down on paper, one's memory manages to lose hold of even this ruined and ridiculous something. Paper can turn an enormity into a triviality, an absurdity. If you look at it this way, then whatever appears in the world, by way of the spiritual world so to speak, is always a ruined thing, a ridiculous thing, which means that everything in this world is ridiculous and ruined. Words were made to demean thought, I would even go so far as to state that words exist in order to abolish thought, and one day they will succeed one hundred percent in so doing. In any case, words (are) bringing everything down. Depression derives from words, nothing else. — Thomas Bernhard

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public ... The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise. — Arthur Miller

The marks humans leave are to often scars — John Green

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you. — Neko Case

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible. — Mahatma Gandhi

Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground. — John McCain

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad. — Douglas Wilson

Look good, play good. Play good, eat good. Eat good, die good. — Deion Sanders

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. — Blaise Pascal

My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband. — Gwen Stefani

When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal ... Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music. — Carlos Gavito

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell

You can never read too much into anything — Dean Cavanagh