Cundall Farms Quotes

#1. If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.

Lionel Trilling

#2. I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman
which means I can be a real revolving son of a bitch when it suits me.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#4. I tried to stay in the clear parts of the road, avoiding horse dung. Perhaps going barefoot had not been the wisest choice.

Elizabeth Vaughan

#5. A child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime.

Abraham Verghese

#6. I don't think I'm the best lyricist; it's hard for me to express feelings through words.

Ty Segall

#7. There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.

Amanda Stevens

#8. True poetry is embarrassing.

Julien Torma

#9. Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

Vera Wang

#10. Poetry is language in orbit.

Seamus Heaney

#11. Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

Isabelle Huppert

#12. If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.

Jane Austen

#13. By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Leo Tolstoy