Arthur Davison Ficke Quotes

Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.

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• Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Free
  • Star
  • inspirational

• There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children to teenager to adults to seniors - and how each phase of life presents new situations along the way to discovering our ultimate purpose.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• Religion, richest favor of the skies.

  

  William Cowper
  • Religion
  • Sky
  • Favors

• Truth is always straightforward.

  

  Sophocles
  • Truth Is
  • Straightforward

• A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Soul
  • Atmosphere
  • Flights

• Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

  

  William James
  • Respect
  • Happiness
  • Existence

• God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Force
  • Obstacles

• Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Stars
  • Two
  • Spheres

• I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Evil
  • Able
  • Canvas

• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sleep
  • Dance
  • Chase

• The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Career
  • Jaws

• Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and white flickering images to fully immersive 3D color high-definition. You don't even know where the real world starts and the fake world begins. And yet, none of that's going to matter unless the story and the emotions that they allow us to become invested in are something that we can recognize. Pixar is able to do this in ways that almost defies speculation.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Experience
  • 3D
  • Motion pictures

• The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Wish
  • Chocolate
  • Story Of My Life

• Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Modern
  • Charms

• But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Remember
  • Reason
  • Expensive

• Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Worst
  • Destruction

• Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.

  

  Arthur Davison Ficke
  • Instruction
  • Dragon
  • Charms