Edmund Clowney Quotes

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

Edmund Clowney

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• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Change
  • Growth

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Background

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Mother
  • House
  • Special

• It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Real
  • Art
  • Free

• I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Think
  • Sensible

• Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Identity

• God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • You
  • Said

• In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fire
  • Symbol

• America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Power
  • America
  • Society

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

  

  B. B. King
  • Start
  • Street
  • Hometown

• Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Industry
  • Cosign

• criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Writing
  • School
  • Criticism

• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Life
  • America
  • Poetry

• My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Music
  • School
  • Dad

• You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

  

  Charles Bukowski

• I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • People
  • Bored

• I knew Elvis Presley very well. He always felt somebody was after him. When you have that kind of a fear, that kind of an attitude, you attract people who want to do you harm.

  

  Liberace
  • People
  • Fear
  • Attitude

• We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end.

  

  James Hutton
  • Beginning

• People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Direction