Fantastical Thinking Quotes

#1. I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

Nick Cave

#2. Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Richard M. Nixon

#3. Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Padgett Powell

#4. Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Cees Nooteboom

#5. It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

Maya Deren

#6. I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Elie Wiesel

#7. Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Mark Twain

#8. For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love.

Robert Anderson

#9. People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.

Jeff Bezos

#10. Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

Epictetus

#11. I don't argue with fools; I educate.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I said, "The children wanted to know what life was like."
Junior said, "They [the children] don't have any idea how rough it was."
(George responds)"Or how good it was either! People forget that a picture ain't made from just one color. Life ain't all good or all bad. It's full of everything.

George Dawson

#13. Service ... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

MC Frontalot

#14. Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

Nelly

#15. I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

Holly Madison

#16. I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

Ginni Rometty

#17. Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.

Gil Scott-Heron