Sompong Rattanakunchon Quotes

#1. When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

Will Cotton

#2. Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

David Sanborn

#3. It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

Christopher Paolini

#4. Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

T. J. Stiles

#6. Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#7. Yet as a distinction, citizenship is entirely artificial. An accident of birth, a quirk in the law, or the whim of a bureaucrat can mean the difference between a life of comfort or a life of struggle.

Stephan Faris

#8. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Criss Jami

#9. Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#10. To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.

Llewellyn Powers

#11. The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

Robert Adams