Folklorist Quotes

#1. I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

Terri Windling

#2. Armed with a hammer and sickle, singer and folklorist A. L. Lloyd hit the nail on the head and cut to the quick on page one of his monumental study of folk song: 'The mother of folklore is poverty.'3

Rob Young

#3. I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

John Corey Whaley

#4. My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Alan Dundes

#5. It is no misfortune if you do not know where you are going; it is far worse when there is no longer anywhere to go. He who stands on the path of experience cannot step away from it, even when it has come to its end. For the path is without end.

Marina Dyachenko

#6. When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

Hugh Bonneville

#7. Go out of your comfort zone; endure the pain. You will gain.

Debasish Mridha

#8. One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people.

Rajneesh

#9. All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust- the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron.

Ray Bradbury

#10. An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.

Tim Ingold

#11. You are only strange if you change who you are for somebody else, then you are a stranger to yourself.

Shane Phillips

#12. If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

Mark Twain

#13. The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow - and our unity with God and others - is humility.

Jerry Bridges

#14. I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

Lawrence Taylor

#15. Don't make your life complicated.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

Benjamin Whichcote

#17. The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.

Olivia Sudjic

#18. He's really sweet, actually."
"I don't think we're talking about the same Sed. Sedric Lionheart. Tall guy. Broad shoulders. Blue eyes. Short black hair. Body befitting a Greek god. Sings. La la la la.

Olivia Cunning

#19. When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

Thomas Hobbes