Shawn Wikoff Quotes

#1. True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship.

Robert Graves

#2. Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.

Angelica Hopes

#3. Liberty coincides with heroism. It is the asceticism of the great man, the bow bent to the breaking-point.

Albert Camus

#4. The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Al Gore

#5. Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

Carolyn Hax

#6. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Christopher Nolan

#7. I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Mary Pope Osborne

#8. I know absolutely nothing about music.

Richard Wagner

#9. A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

Jean Helion

#10. One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

Willa Cather

#11. Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Salman Rushdie

#12. Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it.

Ian Pattison

#13. You will always be a hyena.

Arthur Rimbaud

#14. Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

Henry Steele Commager

#15. I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Og Mandino