Arthur Lismer Quotes

Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

Arthur Lismer

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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Life
  • Work
  • Child

• When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Character
  • Think

• Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • Never
  • Assumptions

• Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Career
  • Light

• Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Country

• The increase in brain size and refinement of stone artifacts point to an unbroken advance in mental ability over the last two or three million years. ...No organ in the history of life has grown faster.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • History
  • Brain

• I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Soul

• I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Suicide

• Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life
  • Game
  • Author

• For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life
  • God

• What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

  

  Jean Marais
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Service

• I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Movie

• If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Life
  • Music
  • Question

• Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Satisfying

• A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Christian

• I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Life
  • Points
  • Turning