Zhang Daqian Quotes & Sayings

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. — Alan Ladd

I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others. — Marlo Morgan

It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing. — Marilynne Robinson

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hung over with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life. — Thomas Ligotti

We are all rich in mind, we just have to exert a little more pressure to ourselves in order to expose our wealthiness to the outside world — Mojela Malelu

All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics. — Pete Seeger

There are guys out there faster than me. — Carl Hagelin

People choose to work more if they do it for free or if well-compensated but not if it is compensated with a little money. — Dan Ariely

The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied. — Martin Jacques

My two worlds just collided. Surprisingly, everything's all right. — Angie Thomas

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be. — Bill Vaughan

I have a Jedi Council to put together. I thought you might help me.
We get to spend the day gossiping about our colleagues and calling it work I'm willing.

Luke Mara — Walter Jon Williams

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. — Ellen Gallagher

She is a fool in too many ways to number: in affairs of infidelity, if a man strays, it is not the fault of the woman with whom he lays. A worthy heart eschews temptation, despite the magnitude. Clearly my heart is not worthy. — Karen Marie Moning