Valentin Pikul Quotes

#1. I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

Nathaniel Branden

#2. Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Martha Graham

#3. It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

Jonathan Davis

#4. Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Charles Olson

#5. Up until the age of 9 or so, I was an incredibly happy, pretty well-adjusted, funny kid who made my parents laugh all the time. I was a bit of a clown, and I was really happy. And then my parents divorced, and I kind of turned into a different person.

Christopher Stanley

#6. Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.

Joy Kogawa

#7. I don't know about you, but I believe that in our present time we are definitely shaking things up with human fate in this world.

Kat Lahr

#8. Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.

Knut Hamsun

#9. Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.

Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi

#10. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Ayn Rand

#11. I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

Buzz Osborne