New Zealand Arts History Quotes

#1. From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Allen Ginsberg

#2. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.

Theresa Sjoquist

#3. We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility.

Geoffrey Litwack

#4. The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.

Shawn Amos

#5. Doing brings happiness. T
oo much time for discussion - discord.

Theresa Sjoquist

#6. 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

#7. She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Theresa Sjoquist

#8. I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

Rachel Stevens

#9. The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

C.S. Lewis

#10. It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

Nicolas Chamfort

#11. 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

#12. Why are you scared, John?'
'Because I know I'm not better.'
'Why do you think that?'
'Because I know it in my heart.

James Frey

#13. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation?

Theresa Sjoquist

#14. The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.

Roland Barthes