Irmantas Balsys Quotes

#1. ...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society.

Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

#2. An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

George Santayana

#3. Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

N. T. Wright

#4. THE MISCONCEPTION: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis. THE TRUTH: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information that confirmed what you believed, while ignoring information that challenged your preconceived notions.

David McRaney

#5. When entertaining a party of six or more always use place cards. When guests know where they are sitting it puts them at ease immediately and they are assured you have given thoughtful consideration as to who their dinner partner will be.

Annie Falk

#6. Every time I fuck you, I want to possess you. Your pleasure, your pain. Look.

C.D. Reiss

#7. Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Ndamukong Suh

#8. Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own stale dew, then take that light.

Iain Banks

#9. Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#10. I hear a small voice
in the back of my mind
and it is chanting a prayer:
'Please don't fall in love again,
please don't fall in love again.'
Maybe this time I will listen.
Maybe this I will learn.

Tina Tran

#11. Don't judge me, I'm not a book.

Melanie Marquez

#12. My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Akon

#13. My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

Moby

#14. I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

Jane Campion

#15. I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"
He shook his head.
"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.

Larry Niven