"Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances."
C.D. Wright
"You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it."
El Greco
"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
Helen Keller
"I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ."
Montesquieu
"Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought."
Albert Pinkham Ryder
"Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?'...'No.'Well, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?"
Heather Brewer
"I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink."
Sonya Hartnett
"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
Elbert Hubbard
"Be generous. The outcome will blow your mind."
Richie Norton
"I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful."
Robert Lopez
"His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg."
Hans Christian Andersen
"Art is the overflow of emotion into action."
Brian Raif
"When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic."
Hugh Hardy
"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming."
Vaclav Klaus
"Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way."
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