Semi Wilderness Quotes

#1. They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

David Gemmell

#2. Complete abstention may be much easier than moderation.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#3. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

Tom Brown Jr.

#4. The human voice often shatters the beauty of the most tender passions; and when we left Simla next day, and Maureen and Sunil used all the stock cliches to express their love, I was a little disappointed. But the poetry of life was in their bodies, not in their tongues.

Ruskin Bond

#5. Failure is the seed of success

Kaoru Ishikawa

#6. This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

Marcel Duchamp

#7. Blind obedience was never what I wanted. Yet, you seem determined to keep us in the past, where every act, every response, is either black or white, when you know damned good and well our lives never existed on such a plane.

Lora Leigh

#8. The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. Make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#10. You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

Peter Thiel

#11. The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Andrew Solomon

#12. The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Miles Davis