Milton Acorn Quotes

#1. The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

Twyla Tharp

#2. Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19)

David Eso

#3. Fucking two things up at the same time isn't multitasking

Dick Masterson

#4. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You

G.K. Chesterton

#5. My knuckles go white as my grip on the porcelain tightens. Now I know what Desmond cashed that one particular bead in for. Sobriety. Forget the supernatural bounty hunters that are after him; that fucker is mine. That

Laura Thalassa

#6. Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

Shashi Tharoor

#7. Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.

Noam Chomsky

#8. You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.
You cannot truly know strength without weakness.
You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.
You cannot truly know hope without despair.

Matshona Dhliwayo