Nonsuccess Quotes

#1. In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ...

Allan Kaprow

#2. How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?

Richard Rohr

#3. The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

Luc De Clapiers

#4. People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

Etta James

#5. It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head

Neil Gaiman

#6. Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

Thomas Beecham

#7. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. Your prayers may appear to go unanswered for many reasons. God may simply be giving you the answer that you are to wait. It could be that some sin in your life is clouding your communication with Him.

Stormie O'martian

#9. These are the woes of Slaves;
They glare from the abyss;
They cry, from unknown graves,
We are the Witnesses!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#11. The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

Alan Davies

#12. I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.

Johnny Carson

#13. I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.

Matthew Donnelly

#14. Heroines did not pick their own battles - the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.

Gordon Dahlquist