Gravois Planing Quotes

#1. The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

Susan Sontag

#2. Dreams do come true, when wished upon the right star

Ellen J. Barrier

#3. Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

Haim Ginott

#4. I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

Mia Wasikowska

#5. I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.

Clive Barker

#6. I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Missy Peregrym

#7. But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.

Bruce Sterling

#8. Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

Archibald MacLeish

#9. There were seven thermonuclear devices? queried Parks, who had latched on to Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you.

Jasper Fforde

#10. Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of the Britannica, try to determine specifically which bugs they were.

Philip K. Dick

#11. When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was - as Khrushchev said of Nixon - 'like sending a goat to tend the cabbage'.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

Ralph Nader

#14. I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

Lily Cole

#15. Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

Leo Tolstoy