Beauty For Ashes Inspirational Quotes

#1. I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

Michael Masser

#2. Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

Frederick Lenz

#3. My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.

Ann Aguirre

#4. Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

Ken Liu

#5. Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. Fear was a devastating thing. It gripped you to the point of being completely incapacitated and swallowed every rational thought that was your given right. The most frightening part of fear was that it had the potential to completely destroy you if you let it.

Rachel Brookes

#7. As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

Chris Van Allsburg

#8. Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

Lenora Mattingly Weber

#9. You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.

Helene Cardona

#10. The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

Jenny Agutter

#11. Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Norman Granz

#12. Let the ruins come to life
In the beauty of Your name
Rising up from the ashes
God forever You reign

Hillsong

#13. When we see the greatness of God in even
our very darkest moments, then we can be free. "Even the crappiest crap we go through glorifies God," Amber likes to say, in her Amber way. "God makes beauty from ashes, and the devil hates when He does that.

Crystal McVea

#14. Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

Frank Stallone

#15. It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

Dick Cavett

#16. I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.

Josh Lawson

#17. Three weeks ago one of my dreams came true. I finally got to see something I always wanted to witness live. I finally saw someone get hit by a car ... Nailed!

Dane Cook

#18. None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine ... I think I understand them thoroughly.

Gordon B. Hinckley