Prisoner Of War famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

  • That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

  • Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!

  • If it's been done, do it better. If it hasn't been done, do it so well that better is not an option.

  • Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

  • The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

  • If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'

  • A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

  • Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

  • Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...