Thomas Cowan Quotes

#1. Courage doesnt tell you to let go when you know what to grab next. Brave people let go when its time to let go.

Annie F. Downs

#2. All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else
first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Agnes De Mille

#4. I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

John Gierach

#5. There's no stopping the soul that radiates out and around us, any more than one can stop the sweet perfume of a rose. You could, of course, hold your nose. But the rose will continue to exude its rich fragrance, even while you suffocate.

Thomas Dale Cowan

#6. We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.

Toni Cade Bambara

#7. For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.

Hannah Arendt

#8. I'm reverent from a distance.

Janet Morris

#9. Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.

Bill Watterson

#10. Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

Eliezer Yudkowsky