Harpstring Quotes

#1. The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Mark Burnett

#3. People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it's how I make my living.

Nate Lowman

#4. Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

Marty Neumeier

#5. Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Aldous Huxley

#6. For as soon as we have used an opportunity and have actualized a potential meaning, we have done so once and for all. We have rescued it into the past/ ... /, wherein nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured.

Viktor E. Frankl

#7. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Lawrence Lessig

#8. Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

Steven Erikson

#9. I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#10. Is truth then a nothing, simply because it is not spread out through space either finite or infinite?" Then from afar you cried to me, "By no means, for I am who I am.

Augustine Of Hippo

#11. When I was a child my mother would tell me that people lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from you, or you'd surrender it willingly.

Tarryn Fisher

#12. If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

Chris Thomas King

#13. I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

Pete Waterman

#14. Success is going from one failure to the next without losing enthusiasm

Winston S. Churchill