Quotes About Interior Spaces

#1. Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

Steven Holl

#2. There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Euripides

#3. Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren Bennis

#4. With a name like Cush Jumbo, you never get forgotten. The 'Jumbo' is from my father, who is Nigerian, and 'Cush' was a king in ancient Egypt. It's a name that took a few years to grow into, but now I feel it was meant to be. It's absolutely who I am, and I love it.

Cush Jumbo

#5. Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

Robert Crais

#6. ... when he slipped out of his mother's womb, he was already filled with interior spaces that didn't belong to him, and he can't just look inside to inspect his own interior.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#7. Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

Cameron Dokey

#8. No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.

Billy Graham

#10. People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

Nicki Chapman

#11. In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#12. Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Meg Rosoff

#13. My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

Nawal El Saadawi

#14. Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Thomas Kuhn

#15. There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Ovid

#16. The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

J.M. Coetzee

#17. America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

Cathleen McGuigan