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Quote Left The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Quote Right
Quote Left What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images. Quote Right
Quote Left My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments. Quote Right
Quote Left Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested. Quote Right
Quote Left I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Quote Right
Quote Left While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. Quote Right
Quote Left A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. Quote Right
Quote Left A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. Quote Right
Quote Left My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43 Quote Right
Quote Left Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. Quote Right
Quote Left Bond. James Bond. Quote Right
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Quote Left Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. Quote Right
Quote Left I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy. Quote Right
Quote Left We are viewing this expansion as a long-term strategy for business expansion in Eastern Europe, ... We are going to pursue sites in Russia and perhaps other locations as well. Quote Right
Quote Left You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. Quote Right
Quote Left Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch Quote Right
Quote Left Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word. Quote Right
Quote Left I've got no objection to women coming into our game if they are good enough. Quote Right
Quote Left I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.... Quote Right
Quote Left War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time. Quote Right
Quote Left The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. Quote Right
Quote Left At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. Quote Right
Quote Left Favorite color: I hate colors. Quote Right
Quote Left Ian: God creates earth, God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs. Ellie: Dinosaurs eat man, women inheirit the earth. Quote Right
Quote Left Using drugs isn't cheating. It's stealing victory from someone who deserves it. Quote Right
Quote Left It would be different if it was someone you didn't like and he was a horrible person, giving it all the time, but he's not like that. Quote Right
Quote Left I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. Quote Right
Quote Left He was a bit of a wild child, he was using drugs heavily, he wasn't keeping regular hours, he was basically a street kid. Quote Right
Quote Left It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe. Quote Right
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Quote Left Mathematicians keep making the same mistake. Irrational numbers, negative numbers, imaginary numbers, undecidability: what is initially seen as an ugly contradiction is in fact an invitation to deepen our understanding of mathematics, and to see its beauty more fully. Undecidability is the discovery of truth oscillators. Quote Right
Quote Left We know there is a divine realm because mathematics exists. And to those who would say mathematics is a human construction, I respond, you probably haven't done much math. Mathematics is consistently smarter than mathematicians, and its soul is deeper as well. Quote Right
Quote Left Doctors, mechanics and politicians must all be adept at diagnosis. Quote Right
Quote Left The personal opinion of a politician should be an afterthought. Quote Right
Quote Left Although lost to history, one may imagine that the origin of the phrase 'to face the music' is that Scottish military formations placed their musicians in the rear. So soldiers had the choice of going forward into battle, or turning back and listening to the bagpipes. This accounts for their bravery. Quote Right
Quote Left Before becoming a politician, you must be inoculated against the truth, just in case you come into contact with it. Quote Right
Quote Left Politicians have checks and balances. With law enforcement it's guilt or innocence. With colleagues it's governing and debates. With the media it's facts. With the American people it's the impression they give. Quote Right
Quote Left Bandaids; people supporting musicians. We reciprocate that rhythm which soothes us. Quote Right
Quote Left In the journey of a Christian, do not walk meekly, do not walk proudly, walk comfortably. Quote Right
Quote Left Trash in the bin and sulfur compounds around. Human machine made up of electric circuits to chemical compounds ....electromagnetic signals seen as aura to telepathy are all by products of how the think tank of human machine processes...... Amazingly.. The only machine which is self reliant........ Quote Right
Quote Left JOSEPH, SON OF JACOB "A type of the Christ Soul, The Greater Self struggling Upward from below" Joseph in an Egyptian Prison is Christ come into the world, where he can meet the two peoples, that is, the Jew and the Gentile... After long suffering, first from the Ungoverned violence of activities which spring from true service, then through temptations from the affections of the natural man, then through Bondage and Pain, the Spirit is Freed and Glorified, ALL EGYYPT BOWS TO JOSEPH" Quote Right
Quote Left I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.—Sondra Locke? Quote Right
Quote Left “When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?” ? Robert E. Howard Quote Right
Quote Left Too much condonable freedom towards the tolerance of deviants produces a promiscuous and dangerous society. Quote Right
Quote Left Like a Vesperian night, shrouded in indigo and crimson, the city's dark beauty seeps into my pores, a madonna of mayhem, her lovely visage a canvas of chaos etched in splendor and decay Quote Right
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Quote Left Democracy is a fallacy, all politicians lie, it's only power they seek. Quote Right
Quote Left My father was a magician he disappeared the day I was born. Quote Right
Quote Left Politicians can never truthfully answer when questioned, for a simple yes or no is simply out of the question. Quote Right
Quote Left Our world could do with more philosophers, and less politicians. Quote Right
Quote Left "God's evergreening grace is no facade. My hope is anchored in my Savior's tree; His resurrection weakened Satan's limbs." from one of my Italian Sonnets - THE EVERGREENING OF DECIDUOUS FAITH Quote Right
Quote Left Robert Sherriff 'Australian' Author-Poet-Actor-Model-Singer/songwriter (There is a rainbow down every street, and then the sun comes out) By R.L. Sherriff Quote Right
Quote Left Robert Sherriff 'Australian' Author-Poet-Actor-Model-Singer/songwriter (There is a rainbow down every street, and then the sun comes out) By R.L. Sherriff Quote Right
Quote Left ROBERT SHERRIFF 08/07/1954 - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT SHERRIFF: my fingers “There is no such thing as writer's block. When my brain shuts down, I let my fingers do the walking, and my brain does the editing. Quote Right
Quote Left ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER- DEDICATED TO Kellie Marie Sherriff "In the echoes of laughter, there lies a map to joy, guiding us through the labyrinth of life with its cheerful resonance." Quote Right
Quote Left ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER - DEDICATED TO Hayley June Brooks "Wisdom is a river, flowing through the landscape of our thoughts, carving valleys of understanding and mountains of insight." Quote Right
Quote Left ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER- DEDICATED TO Robert Lloyd Sherriff 3rd "Time is a sculptor, carving moments into memories, each second a chiseled stroke shaping the essence of our lives." Quote Right
Quote Left ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER- DEDICATED TO Blake Sherriff "The melody of the wind through trees is nature's symphony, a timeless composition of rustling leaves and whispering breezes." Quote Right
Quote Left ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER- DEDICATED TO Robert Lloyd Sherriff 3rd "A book is a portal, each page a step, transporting readers from the mundane to realms of infinite possibility." Quote Right
Quote Left ROBERT SHERRIFF 08/07/1954 - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER true worth “Only a great leader will show their true worth. It is what they have between their ears. Not between their legs. Quote Right
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