quotes about Artillery

“Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.”

“No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.”

“True repentance is to cease from sin.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.

“In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.467, SAGE

“Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.”

Source : Chellis Glendinning (2007). “My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization”

“Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.”

“And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over; you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.”

“In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.”

“Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?”

Source : "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

“I’ve been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is just a girl who loves music and loves to be around the people who make it. She is the fan that takes it to the next level to experience the whole shebang,”