Cicada Insect Quotes

#1. The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

Yoko Ono

#2. My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

Andrew Forge

#3. In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.

Alan Keyes

#4. There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

Bobby Thomson

#5. The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#6. I do things my way and I pay a high price.

John Mellencamp

#7. As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

Norman Jewison

#8. Discretion is the survival one needs around friends who admires you but hate your hapiness and success, and would do anything so that you are not up to them or better than them.

Darmie Orem

#9. I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

Stephen King

#10. Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.

Laurel Ann Nattress

#11. I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.

Karl Lagerfeld

#12. You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

George Alexiou

#13. No great stars above her. Only a blackness that hurt to look at. Had the distant suns abandoned their birthplace? Earth was dying and the stars were gone like adulterous celestial lovers seeking a new terrestrial mate. She did not blame them. We were never worth shining for, she thought.

C.J. Anderson

#14. Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

Thomas A Kempis

#15. In past summers when I had been home, I had often tasted a strange sadness as I sat quietly in the midst of the seething cicada song. This sorrow seemed to pierce deep into my heart along with the piercing insect cry. Always at such times I would sit alone and still, gazing into myself.

Soseki Natsume