Viljoen Associates Quotes & Sayings

I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time. — Marilynne Robinson

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. — Stendhal

I love tapping. People don't really get to see that as much, but I love doing that. — Maddie Ziegler

It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect - and it is - but I had long since — Will Ferguson

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing. — Larry Holmes

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else. — Jane Levy

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche. — David Deutsch

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. — Daphne Du Maurier

This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not transcend the limits of their age, but, working within the times, bring what is peculiar to the moment to glory. We need great artists who are willing to accept restrictions, and who love their environments with such vitality that they can produce an epic out of the Protestant ethic.... Whatever the many failings of my work, let it stand as a manifesto of my love for the time in which I was born. — John Updike