Gilkey Quotes

#1. Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.

Clive Davis

#3. When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh.

John Edward Williams

#4. The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the same as hitting your employee or wife, and the issue become pretty clear when you think about it that way.

Zach Braff

#5. It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.

Sophia Amoruso

#6. Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

Holly Lynn Payne

#7. Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#8. It is pointless for a woodcutter to shed tears for the trees he'd chopped all his life. He can't bring them back but he can plant new ones and in doing so he would have compensated and redeemed himself of his wrongdoings.

Chirag Tulsiani

#9. Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#10. Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#11. The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#12. Take me away from all this Death.

Bram Stoker

#13. Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Langdon Brown Gilkey