We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.
There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.
He wanted to tell her that if it were simply a matter of crossing the river Styx and trading places with Beau, he'd be gone in a heartbeat.
Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.
In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.
All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.
Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.
She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God’s gift to her, and she wouldn’t trade him for the world.
Count your blessings. Millions of people would love to trade their problems for yours.
A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do.
A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.
Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something.
What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
