Quotes About Sjon

#1. I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.

James Longstreet

#2. The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

Lewis H. Lapham

#3. Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

Gary Ross

#4. Fridrik sat many a night by a smoking lamp, translating into Danish descriptions of the latest methods of keeping us poor humans alive, while on pallets around him lay the corpses, beyond any aid, despite the encouraging news of advances in electrical cures.

Sjon

#5. You are always surrounded by wonder, whether you realise this or not.

Steven Redhead

#6. I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I sometimes do. So it was an attempt to dig into the race and history in America, and to make it personal and dramatic.

Steven C. Harper

#7. I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a fire as if he were a banned book ... for what is the difference? Every book is imbued with the human spirit.

Sjon

#8. Balderdash, I say, let the sword turn into an adder and the adder a salmon and the salmon a birch twig and birch twig a sword and the sword a tongue ... Let it all run together so swiftly that it cannot be separated again ...

Sjon

#9. Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

Michael Morpurgo

#10. People tend to take the path of least resistance. - Benjamin Hope

Scott G. Mariani

#11. I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

Mick Mars

#12. Light, more light!"
But the closer the priest came to his goal, the less man there was in him, the more beast.

Sjon

#13. I like all kinds of wrestling, I like pro wrestling, so if there's a guy I've been feuding with for over a year, and damn it, the only thing left to do is beat the crap out of each other in a steel cage, then it's time to do it.

CM Punk

#14. Like contemporary poetry , philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.

Samuel R. Delany

#15. Only those who have learnt the tongue of angels can tell how one's name will sound in the language of light.

Sjon

#16. I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

Sjon