"Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody."

-- E. J. W. Barber

#Military Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.”
“It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.”

Source : "Parking in the Meatpacking: Johnny Pigozzi". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2010.
“All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.”
“If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.”
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

Source : "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

You may also like: