Clark Ashton Smith Quotes
Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?
Clark Ashton Smith
Quotes to Explore
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
Pam Grier
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
Saint Ignatius
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
Camilla Lackberg
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
Jack Welch
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The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.
Anthony de Mello
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
Alfred Hitchcock
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When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.
Kali Uchis
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
Jeff Bridges
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I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.
Marisa Tomei
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
William Hazlitt
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Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
Thomas Aquinas
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
Brown Campbell
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
Carlos Pena, Jr.
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Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?
Clark Ashton Smith
