"I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from."

-- Anne Rivers Siddons

#Dream Quotes #Country Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.”

Source : Dan Jenkins (2015). “DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
“After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”

Source : Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”
“Im at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. Ive got my dogs as surrogates, but Im ready for kids.”
“The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.”

Source : "The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. I), 1951.
“We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.”

Source : Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag
“The only right reason to be an entrepreneur is to change the world.”
“We are today beginning to see work by very reputable scientists that says the universe is created by our observations. It is not a coincidence; we are actively involved in physically shaping the world that we experience.”
“If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.”

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