New Zealand Artist Quotes

#1. The effect of the mantram is cumulative: constant repetition, constant practice, is required for the mantram to take root in our consciousness and gradually transform it, just as constant repetition makes the advertiser's jingle stick in our minds.

Eknath Easwaran

#2. There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.

Henryk Skolimowski

#3. Perhaps the truth is simply that one would need many lives to enter each realm of experience with the total abandon it demands.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#4. No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell).

Theresa Sjoquist

#5. Reality is symbolic
of an unseen insanity

Carl-John X. Veraja

#6. It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

Ezra Klein

#7. Leaving

He stood backlit
by windows full of winter,
a shade thrown over his face.
What a waste, I thought.
What relief.

Jameson Fitzpatrick

#8. Leading the way forward at great cost to herself, her magnificent energy was so intense that it tumbles down still through many lives.

Theresa Sjoquist

#9. Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

Max Von Sydow

#10. Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

Tony Kushner

#12. When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise

Theresa Sjoquist

#13. Man seldom behaves as per his philosophies. He usually philosophizes as per his behavior.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

C.S. Lewis

#15. My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

Rebecca Hall

#16. It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer.

Theresa Sjoquist

#17. The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it.

Kevin Conroy

#18. As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

Ernest Cline