Finster Quotes

#1. Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

Doug Dillon

#2. Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

Howard Finster

#3. Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

Howard Finster

#4. My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

Howard Finster

#5. As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.

Howard Finster

#6. You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

Howard Finster

#7. If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

Corrie Ten Boom

#8. But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Howard Finster

#9. It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#10. I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

Howard Finster

#11. There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Judy Biggert

#12. The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Samuel Johnson

#13. When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

Howard Finster

#14. Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Vladimir Putin

#15. I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Jorge Luis Borges

#16. You lie upon my heart as on a nest,
Folded in peace, for you can never know
How crushed I am with having you at rest
Heavy upon my life. I love you so
You bind my freedom from its rightful quest.
In mercy lift your drooping wings and go.

Amy Lowell

#17. I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.

Howard Finster

#18. I never met someone I did not love.

Howard Finster

#19. Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Richard Dawkins

#20. The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.

John O'Donohue

#21. Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

Howard Finster

#22. I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.

Howard Finster

#23. One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.

Confucius

#24. When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd.

Howard Finster

#25. I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

Howard Finster

#26. We must not allow ourselves to be the prisoners of our societal conformity.

Debasish Mridha