Aristech Quotes

#1. Why are things always happy in Japanese restaurants? Just once, maybe I'd like to try the Sashimi of Discontent, or the Heartbroken Hand Roll

Amy Vansant

#2. So you know, formally, what the government here is saying is that Israel's prime minister announced the appointment on Twitter. He didn't follow diplomatic protocol. But what we know is that it's about much more than that. It is about who Dani Dayan is.

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

#3. The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

Susan Sontag

#4. The Buddhists say envy is based on a delusion, the belief that the object of desire is what it seems to be.

Robert Cilley

#5. All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Colin R. Davis

#6. We don't carry in subtraction, however; we borrow, and that involves an intrinsically different mechanism - a messy back-and-forth kind of thing.

Charles Petzold

#7. You and I, in our quest for truth, must set ourselves on a higher level. If the worldly reasoner
is like a butcher, we wish not to be found like them - minus fingers or thumbs. Spiritual reasoning
can be a very sharp blade; it behooves us, then, to 'rightly divide'.

D.L. Herring

#8. But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

Orson Scott Card

#9. Hard work keeps you grounded

Colleen Houck

#10. O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

Elliot W. Eisner