Battlements Dance Quotes

#1. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

Ashutosh Gupta

#2. The cleanest civilization I've ever seen ... and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?

M.A. George

#3. Souls dance undressed/ together/ and like loiterers/ on the fringes of a fair/ we ogle the unobtainable/ imagined mystery/ Yet away around on the far side/ like a stage door of a circus tent/ is a wide vent in the battlements/ where even elephants/ waltz thru
pg. 31// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#4. Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.

David Ignatius

#5. The result was magnificent ... I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

Arthur Rubinstein

#6. Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

Ivan Klima

#7. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

#8. But you can't navigate a raft," he added. "It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it.

Thor Heyerdahl

#9. The universe is your canvass; love is your paintbrush.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. The public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Sometimes all you need is to keep yourself busy all the time.

Lovely Goyal

#12. We must invite God into our pain to help us survive the desperate in-between.

Lysa TerKeurst

#13. Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Herb Alpert

#14. The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.

Nate Berkus