Yaystack Quotes & Sayings

This was law? she thought. Where was the excitement of court cases, the challenge of defending the people that her father was always talking about? This was no fun at all. — Francine Pascal

The world will not be free of me who will establish religion secretly and openly in order that the proofs of God are not obliterated. They will be few in number but they will be great in honour. They will be lost openly, but their pictures will reign in hearts. God will preserve His religion through them. They will leave the religion for their successors and they will plant it in the hearts of the young. The real nature of knowledge will be disclosed with their help. They will get good news from the life of sure faith. They will make easy what the rich think difficult and they will make clear what the heedless think obscure. They will keep company with the world witht their bodies, but their souls will be kept hanging in lofty places. They are servants of God among His people, His trustees and deputies on the earth. Then he wept and said: How eager I am to meet them. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters — El Greco

Every step I take in light is mine forever. — Swami Vivekananda

A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant. — Ming-Dao Deng

First base was a far richer social opportunity. First base made catching feeling like a bad dinner party - what with the ump hanging on your shoulder and all the fans and cameras staring at you. At first base you could really talk. — Michael Lewis

It's no use trying to be different than you are. — Chogyam Trungpa

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history. — David Wojnarowicz

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. — George Gaylord Simpson

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind. — Greg MacGillivray

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites. — Samuel R. Delany

[My favourite are] the films of Agnes Varda, because of her sense of humor and the intimate, personal way she tells her stories. She is brave in taking creative risks, and her curiosity in others is so contagious. This brings me closer to the subjects in her films. — Maya Goded