Artistry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

  • I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.

  • Crude hasn't been responding to fundamentals all year. I think crude has been 8 to 10 overvalued for some time and has been responding to the fear of what could happen rather than the reality of what is happening.

  • I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.

  • The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises

  • Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

  • Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.

  • It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

  • All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

  • We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.