Zemurray Gardens Quotes

#1. He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

Walter Benjamin

#2. We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis...

William Eisner

#3. The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Harold Bloom

#4. A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.

Michael Dummett

#5. I'm just auditioning. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things.

Madeline Zima

#6. In battle, topography is fate.

Rick Atkinson

#7. Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

Mark Nepo

#8. I'm a terrible trumpet player.

Ray Stevens

#9. I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

Frederick Lenz