Neuschafer Community Quotes

#1. The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

Donald Barthelme

#2. I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.

Sherilyn Fenn

#3. The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Francois Rabelais

#4. Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#5. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Gertrude Atherton

#6. Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens.

Ruskin Bond

#7. It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

Daniel Barenboim

#8. Time is purple / Just before night.

Mary O'Neill

#9. The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

Friedrich Von Bernhardi

#10. Always God's goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#11. I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

Ted Bell

#12. Ever boy deserves a father.

Jonathan Hickman