Youman Nabi Quotes & Sayings

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him. — Paul Klee

The past is dead, and has no resurrection. — Henry Kirke White

Oblivion is purgatorial and grey. He is passably conscious, not asleep but not quite awake either, as if disconnected from everything, unable to move or think or receive input, able to exist. — Patrick Ness

If my decision is wrong, at least I will have learned something new. There is always next time. — Sylvan Clarke

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music. — David Rodigan

Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life. — Euginia Herlihy

The fact that he'd been here only two minutes and already had a girl hurling herself onto his bed would have been thrilling, except that of course she was fleeing infernal rodents. — Cassandra Clare

You can't have a plan for your day, 'til you have a plan for your life. — Anthony Robbins

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything. — Victor Hugo

In Mencken's view, "religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and ... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress" ("The Ascent of Man"). — H.L. Mencken