E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
72 quotes
"No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed."
"Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders."
"Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!"
"The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has..."
"Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens."
"If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power."
"It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations."
"If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be."
"If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear."
"... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right."
"If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right."
"Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables."
"... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you."
"Love, like Fortune, favours the bold."
"Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought."
"Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought."
"She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!"
"When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith...."
"Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something."
"You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry."
"I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd."
"Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner."
"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."
"Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied."
"It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance."