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Post by snowstorm on May 4, 2018 22:35:44 GMT
"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"
Phyllis Diller
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Post by passingtime on May 4, 2018 23:49:38 GMT
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Post by snowstorm on May 10, 2018 15:34:45 GMT
“And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me."
Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.”
Hafez
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Post by snowstorm on May 11, 2018 18:58:00 GMT
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case." Chuck Close
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Post by snowstorm on May 20, 2018 22:17:05 GMT
'In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.'
David Walliams, from his book 'Mr Stink'
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Jun 22, 2018 18:31:01 GMT
Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2018 18:31:01 GMT
"God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches & religions. If the noblest saint among the Buddhists, the best Mahometan, the highest Stoic of Athens, the purest and wisest Christian . could meet somewhere and converse, they would all find themselves of one religion. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." - Emerson www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/books/2003/06/the-essential-emerson.aspx
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Post by snowstorm on Jun 22, 2018 18:37:59 GMT
Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? - Emerson I think it is at the time it happens because of the usually dire consequences.
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Post by snowstorm on Jul 2, 2018 9:23:13 GMT
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock
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Post by snowstorm on Jul 3, 2018 17:46:34 GMT
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jul 5, 2018 21:50:55 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Jul 5, 2018 21:50:55 GMT
"Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats."
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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Jul 7, 2018 17:55:03 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Jul 7, 2018 17:55:03 GMT
"Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.
Whereas in science, you can't just make stuff up and presume that it is a proper account of nature. At the end of the day, you have to answer to nature. Since everyone has nature to answer to, your creativity is simply discovering something about the natural world that somebody else would have eventually discovered exactly the same way. They might have come through a different path, but they would have landed in the same place.
Even though we name theorems and equations after the people who discover them — Newton's laws of gravity, Kepler's laws of planetary motion — somebody else would have discovered them afterward. It's that simple. Your creativity is not a boundless creativity."
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist.
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Post by snowstorm on Jul 8, 2018 21:44:42 GMT
"Strawberries! Fruit from the heart."
Anthony T. Hincks
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Jul 10, 2018 20:43:32 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Jul 10, 2018 20:43:32 GMT
"Early summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky. Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice, while the sun tarries.
Just think -- all the celestial lights are present at the same time! These are moments of wonder -- see them and remember."
Vera Nazarian
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Jul 18, 2018 9:54:17 GMT
Post by snowstorm on Jul 18, 2018 9:54:17 GMT
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by snowstorm on Sept 6, 2018 8:08:33 GMT
"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky."
Dejan Stojanovic
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