Ikon Quotes

#1. A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?

Thomas Pynchon

#3. Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come.

James Salter

#4. Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Daniel Coyle

#5. Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want?
Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart.
The important things.

Ana Castillo

#6. There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

Jim Rohn

#7. It seems that all the wondrous influences that have coalesced to produce myriad life forms are irrelevant and can be trashed at will in a pointless race to produce ever more things ever more quickly.

Tony Wardle

#8. Cats, as any rational person knows, are solitary, opportunistic, ambush predators, much like spiders, but with fewer legs and a better fan club.

Jonathan L. Howard