Yukardan Bakis Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter. — Debra Granik

after Fourth of July celebrations — Mike Riley

The right direction, if there were such a thing, is looking anywhere without using the mind as a filter. See things as they are.The present moment is right now, without any addition from the mind. If you can see the appearance, outside of thought, then you will also notice that there is no need for the person you have imagined as yourself. Progress, if there were such a thing, would be to spend more time in those moments of absolute presence/awareness and in the total immediacy of right now.This is not something that you practice, just notice that it is happening now, with or without the mind's participation. — John Greven

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody. — Emily Carr

I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me. — Marvin Gaye

When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man ... who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties. — Mark Hanna

No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. — Ralph Fiennes

a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one. — William Gibson

Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone's control. — Seneca.

If you are going to trust on loves one . first learn to tolerate pain.because finally your trust will bring you there — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine. — Mary Doria Russell

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker. — Richard Armour

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals. — Al Yankovic

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life. — Blaise Pascal