Roy Gori Quotes

#1. What else can we do in the wilderness, than to wonder?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

Ciaran Lynch

#3. Humankind, with its long history, is by now a corpse bound to a tree with the ropes of convention. If the ropes were cut, the corpse would simply fall to the ground. Prayer in one's mother tongue is a manifestation of that pathetic state."
-from "A Prayer in the Mother Tongue

Yasunari Kawabata

#4. She had thought that she was protecting herself, but now she saw that resistance for what it was. It was only childish fright, a fear of the unknown. She knew that she would have to overcome that fear. When

Sophia Lynn

#5. That just like I thought the best part of the apple was past the peel, she said people are like that too. The best part of people is always past their skin.

Anonymous

#6. I saw dark, so I recognize light.

C.M. Stunich

#7. You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis.

Dubravka Ugresic

#8. Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Martin Jacques

#9. When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Thomas Crum

#10. In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

Richard Attias

#11. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.

Walter J. Phillips

#13. The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

David Rakoff