Taliesin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I am frequently attacked.
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I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
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We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time.
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We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.
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Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
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And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.
