Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

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• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Process
  • Still

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Kids
  • Decision
  • Survival

• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Things
  • All Things

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• I don't know if I'm a method actor.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Method

• I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Thoughtful

• I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I want everyone to know that I'm here. We'll talk; we'll visit.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Want
  • Know
  • Republican

• Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • God
  • Him

• Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Love

• I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

  

  Washed Out
  • Pretty
  • Try
  • Normal

• If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Powerful

• Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

  

  Chauncey Depew
  • Up
  • Important
  • Mind

• Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

  

  Mabel Collins
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Mistake

• I will show you the path to the spirit world.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Spirit
  • Path

• There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
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