Decivilization Quotes

#1. If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#2. For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

Adrienne Rich

#3. Right now, me getting killed would be redundant.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. There was all the difference in the world between this planning airily away from the canvas and actually taking her brush and making the first mark.

Virginia Woolf

#5. Until you found your way out of the woods, it was reassuring to find other people lost in them with you.

Jonathan Tropper

#6. Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Sam Snead

#7. There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

Abraham Kuyper

#8. Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

Alice Clayton

#9. Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

Catherine Hardwicke

#10. I want you for eternity, not for a brief finish line.
There's no one after you.

Krista Ritchie

#11. Words are truly the image of the soul.

Basil The Great

#12. With each successive pint he found that he was enjoying himself significantly less; until now he was sitting and shivering on the sidewalk outside the pub in a small Scottish town, weighing the relative merits of being sick and not being sick, and not enjoying himself at all.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

Marty Sklar

#14. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart - hearts are made to be broken - but that it turns one's heart to stone.

Oscar Wilde

#15. It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Henry R. Luce