Crisenberry Dam Quotes

#1. There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad.

Gabriel Chevallier

#2. Sadly, I really want to be Batman ... and I just never will be.

Virginia Madsen

#3. But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Ann Brashares

#4. Maybe that's what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.

Maria Semple

#5. Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

Otto Dix

#6. If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

Drew Houston

#7. I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days ...

Henry David Thoreau

#8. When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Hadrian discovered that the most fascinating thing about plummeting in total darkness wasn't the odd sense of euphoria instilled from the free fall or the abject terror derived from anticipating sudden death, but that he had the opportunity to contemplate both.

Michael J. Sullivan

#10. The map was one thing and the land quite another.

George R R Martin

#11. Like most blacks in Philadelphia, Eliza was free. She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

James Mackintosh

#13. Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#14. No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

Danny Harris