Mediumistic Quotes

#1. To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Marcel Duchamp

#2. With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#3. I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

Lynsey Addario

#4. I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because he is motherless, but because I am childless and I want someone to love.

Philippa Gregory

#5. He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Richard Whately

#6. He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface.

Lauren Oliver

#7. I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

A.S. Byatt

#8. System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

Steve Simmons

#9. I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.

Ben Mendelsohn

#10. In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

Henry David Thoreau

#11. If Jesus is at once God and human, that means that as believers we cannot refer to Jesus as God without qualifying that:"God in human form.

Amos Smith

#12. Will I be remembered as the man who protected mankind from a powerful evil? Or, will I be remembered as a tyrant who arrogantly tried to make himself a legend?

Brandon Sanderson