Wehapa Quotes & Sayings

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively. — Guy Gavriel Kay

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. — Willem Dafoe

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies. — Luther Burbank

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse ... We are meant to be hungry. — Lionel Shriver

Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art. — Josef Von Sternberg

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. — G.K. Chesterton

Book-reading is of small value unless the truths which pass before the mind are grasped, appropriated, and carried out to their practical issues. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument. — William Morris Hunt

Short lives,

bouncing harmlessly as a cloth doll on grandma's lap.

Small helpless states,

pretentiousness garbed in the unintelligible,

makers of disposable art,

the zeal to make a scoop unstoppable,

pacified by fresh news,

of scrabbling sexy movements. — Brian D'Ambrosio

As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere. — Larry Page

The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life. — Paul David Washer

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. — Abraham Cowley

You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. A related phenomenon is the ongoing transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb 'to like' from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse: from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture's substitution for loving. — Jonathan Franzen