Edith Schaeffer Quotes

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

Edith Schaeffer

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Changed

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Feminist

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Eating

• The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Together
  • Father

• My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Revelation
  • Final

• A thing final in itself and, therefore, good: One of the vast repetitions final in Themselves and, therefore, good, the going round And round and round, the merely going round, Until merely going round is a final good, The way wine comes at a table in a wood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Wine

• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • World
  • God
  • Soul

• The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

  

  Conrad Black
  • American

• They tell us it will be about 'emotions' and 'friendship,' that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Night
  • Joy
  • Friendship

• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Cold

• Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

  

  Alan Ball

• I think any story line that involves a relationship is going to be interesting.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Interesting
  • Relationship

• Taste, of which the proverb says there should be no dispute, is precisely the subject which needs discussion.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding

• I love my bubble skirt. I wear it with a belt and my shirt tucked in. Just like a t-shirt from Nordstrom's or something. And I wear this navy blue blazer with the sleeves crushed up. And I just feel like I'm such a cool girl when I walk out. I feel like, 'Yeah I'm cool, like a model.'

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Cool

• I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Beach

• Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

  

  Edith Schaeffer