Stills Quotes - Page 6

• Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Distance, Home, Creativity

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• Change is like to surfing. You can't just paddle into life, stand still and expect to stay on top of your board. The waves of change will knock you off and drag you under. Some people even think changes are fun! You are where you are because you want to be there. If you want to be somewhere else, you'll need to change.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Fun, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own and would start to laugh, and then eagerly read the passage aloud to me--and I'd do the same to him! Pratchett's books became a shared source of delight for us back then, and they still are today.

  Linda Sue Park

  Book, Reading, Son

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• I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

  Robert Frost

  Self, Self Education

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• Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Children, Educational, Schedules

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Two, Mind, Able

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• Admit something.
  
  Everyone you see, you say to them
  "Love me."
  
  Of course you do not do this out loud:
  Otherwise,
  Someone would call the cops.
  
  Still, though, think about this,
  This great pull in us to connect.
  
  Why not become the one
  Who lives with a full moon in each eye
  That is always saying,
  
  With that sweet moon
  Language
  
  What every other eye in this world
  Is dying to
  Hear?

  Hafez

  Sweet, Eye, Moon

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• We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

  Philip Larkin

  Be Kind, Should, Be Careful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.175, Faber & Faber

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• We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Divinity, May

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.89, NYU Press

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• Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Different, Facts, Persons

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• To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

  Arnold Bennett

  Faith, Mind, Mystical

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• It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.

  Marc Anthony

  Fascination, Want, Morbid

  "Marc Anthony keeping mum on wedding". www.today.com. June 8, 2004.

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• I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

  Ken Burns

  Artist, Landscape, Might

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• A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Way, Paint

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• On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Solitude, Spirit, Longing

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• Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Errors, Data, Finding Yourself

  "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories".

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• A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Knowing, Consciousness

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• Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heart, Attachment, Giving

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “Miscellany”, p.111, Aeterna Press

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• I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

  Chuck Close

  Suffering, Tragedy, Terrible

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• I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Thinking, Being Thankful

  Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

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• Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Divinity, Serene, Take Me

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• I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

  Adolf Galland

  Three, Today, Driven

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• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

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