Smigel Quotes

#1. I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Nicole Holofcener

#2. Speech is like an arrow; it is necessary to aim it by way of reflection before uttering anything.

Burhan Al-Din Al-Zarnuji

#3. William Stoner felt a kinship that he had not suspected; he knew that Lomax had gone through a kind of conversion, an epiphany of knowing something through words that could not be put in words,

John Edward Williams

#4. Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.

Epicurus

#5. Remember kids: brush your greens, eat your teeth, stay in milk, drink your school, don't do sleep, and get your eight hours of drugs!

Robert Smigel

#6. Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Jon Anderson

#7. Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

#8. By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know and bring this into their paintings ... They always give us more than the facts, more than the eye can see.

Hans Rookmaaker

#9. One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

Thomas De Maiziere

#10. Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

Archie Shepp

#11. I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

Patricia Riggen

#12. The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Plato

#13. You think of yourself
light, fast, free
free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

Marion Woodman

#14. The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead; it is the living only that has any right in it.

Thomas Paine

#15. I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

George Washington

#16. Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.

Liza Lugo