Sitzmark Quotes

#1. We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness

Voltaire

#2. The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

Bokar Rinpoche

#3. If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.

Joss Whedon

#4. So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#5. Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.

Samuel Adams

#6. I did what I could,
I tried to stay away,
I told myself that I don't need you,
I don't need to feel this way,
But soon I realized that I am just a fish
Always falling as you're prey

Tanzy Sayadi

#7. Don't ask me my opinions on art, because I don't have any. Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my "palette". I find it impossible to spend hours in galleries analyzing and gesticulating.

Luis Bunuel

#8. You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

Mark Miller

#9. With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease
because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Susan Sontag

#10. An artist's job is to captivate ... if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Aaron Sorkin