Aliwal Arts Quotes

#1. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Wilhelm Steinitz

#3. The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

Bertrand Russell

#5. It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

Jan Peacock

#6. You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.

Nicole Mones

#7. Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

Beth Ditto

#8. I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.

Taya Kyle

#9. A Dream bring us to the most Beautiful Places.

Jan Jansen