John Bayley Quotes

#1. So far, as far as we know Wild 2 is a unique object.

Donald E. Brownlee

#2. Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression.

Sue Grafton

#3. I love to laugh! My life would be lessened if I didn't

Samuel Colbran

#4. The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

Owain Yeoman

#5. On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.

Ziauddin Yousafzai

#6. Call me what you want, but that won't change how I am.

Alexander

#7. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

Oswald Chambers

#8. Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Bayley

#9. The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

John Bayley

#10. So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

Bikram Choudhury

#11. I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

Meredith Monk

#12. One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

John Bayley

#13. With all our new technologies, I feel like these feelings have really been dampened. Even if you are thousands of kilometers from somebody, you can still video chat with them on your cellphone. Even though we can see each other more on the internet, maybe our hearts becomes more distant.

Jia Zhangke

#14. Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. Focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away.

Nikki Rowe

#16. Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.

John Kasich

#17. If you ask the great city, 'Who is this person?,' she will answer, 'He is my child.

Victor Hugo

#18. Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

John Bayley

#19. Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.

Cate Blanchett