C.F. Joyce Quotes
When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.
They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson, ' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?''Being Gulley Jimson, ' I said, 'and getting away with it.
When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.
The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.
For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
Every life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too just like anything else. It's all work work.
There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible her mother's cookbook and her father's checkbook.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.
If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.
Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.
That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.
She will speculate that she didn’t fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband “alive” in her memory—elusive, teasing.
How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.
The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!
The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future.
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed—to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all.
A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.