"Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Enemy Quotes #Bigs Quotes #Leap Quotes

“When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.”
“We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.”
“In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.”

Source : Franz Liszt (1998). “Franz Liszt”, Oxford University Press
“I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say 'I'm Stupid.' That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.”

Source : "Here's Your Sign". Live album by Bill Engvall, 1996.
“The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.”
“I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?”
“Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.”
“I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.”

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