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Quotes

What can I say, I love quotes! So I've compiled just a few of my favorites to share with anyone who feels like reading 'em. If you have some quotes you'd like to share that are not listed below please feel free to e-mail them to me. If I like them I'll put them on the site.

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Stephen Nachmanovitch
"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child."

Edward Hopper
"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination,"

Jalal ud-Din Rumi
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

Unknown
You said "I don't."
I said "I do."
You said "I won't."
I did for you.
You said "I can't."
I could and did.
You said "I need."
I would not give.
It seems when all is said and done
We failed to hear the starting gun.

Colette
"You will do foolish things, but do them with entusiasm."

Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellance then, is not an art, but a habbit."

Riven
"Through desperation can we tap into our full potential."

Rollo May
"Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions . . . ."

unknown
"Take your dying with some seriousness, however, laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they'll all call you crazy."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us"


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I make no claim to have written any of the following quotes if there is a name accompanying it. If it says "unknown", well then obviously I don't know who said it, and it wasn't me. If it's in italics, then yes, those I do claim as mine.

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M. C. Richards
"Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance"

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Riven
"What do you expect me to be
When all I know is misery?"

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Albert SzentGyorgyi
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind"

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e.e. cummings
"If she were alive, death was amusing"

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Francis Bacon
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery"

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Margaret Sanger
"The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities."

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Peter Koestenbaum
Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

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Unknown
"Your consciousness is the measure of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."

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Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

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