Nelson Shanks (John Nelson Shanks) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
-
My worst expectations never happened.
-
I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
-
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
-
I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
-
What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
-
I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
-
Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
-
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
-
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
-
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
-
To go back means defeat.
-
To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
-
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
-
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
-
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
-
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
-
Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.
-
I’m in mourning for my life.
-
Everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing.
-
I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
-
By taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
-
I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
-
I'm drawing in my head pretty much.
