Zwahlens Audubon Quotes

#1. Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

James F. Cooper

#2. We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

Frances Moore Lappe

#3. The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

Richard Paul Evans

#4. It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.

Henry Allen Ironside

#5. She knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned.

Charles Frazier

#6. Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Maya Angelou

#7. Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.

Justin Vernon

#9. I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#10. Plenty of things in life are superlatively uninteresting; so that it is one-half of art to select from realities those which contain the possibility of poetry

Honore De Balzac

#11. And we clung to each other in a shelter smelling of orange peel and piss on the promenade, and shrieked with glee, like the Bacchae who dismembered Orpheus.

Lorna Sage

#12. Only a few more weeks till spring ... and a few more weeks then till summer ... and holidays ... and Green Gables ... and golden sunlight on Avonlea meadows ... and a gulf that will be silver at dawn and sapphire at noon and crimson at sunset ... and you.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

Alan Guth