Jonathan Swift Quotes
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Quotes to Explore
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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Delay is the enemy of progress.
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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
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The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.
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Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.
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I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.
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The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.
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It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things.
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If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.
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When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
