Semmes Quotes

#1. One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#2. Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.

Molly Friedenfeld

#3. Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?

Tess Gerritsen

#4. Rain. Jude. Me. Kissing
Stick a fork in me because I was done.

Nicole Williams

#5. But even though catastrophic oppression brought about a process of objectification and dehumanization, the absolute negation of humanity was not possible because a damaged human spirit seeks to resurrect and reconstruct itself; it also seeks self-consciousness.

Clovis E. Semmes

#6. To stay young,
To save the world,
Break the mirror.

Nanao Sakaki

#7. He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

Plato

#8. A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Henri Matisse

#9. Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

Terry Teachout

#10. If I didn't love so damn hard I
wouldn't have someone to risk my life for.

Leslie Lee Sanders

#11. Each man dreams his own heaven.

John Connolly

#12. Liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty.

Raphael Semmes

#13. I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

Jonathan Evison