Silver Birch Tree Quotes

#1. I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Geri Halliwell

#2. Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.

Ross Feld

#3. I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

John Fowles

#4. Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

Calvin Trillin

#5. Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.

Penelope Smith

#6. If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.

Thomas Struth

#7. God is reveaing Himself in this hour as the supreme elation of the soul. True love of God is evident in those whose only pleasure is derived fom drawing near to Him.

John Crowder

#8. The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Arthur Ganson

#9. Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

Moses Malone

#10. My imagination is something of a badass.

D.C. Pierson

#11. How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Are you kidding? That's a hardware problem!

Various

#12. People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

Jason Isbell