A.S.A. Harrison Quotes
So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.
I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul
The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'
If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
Bean, what's one step worse then a fashion don't?....a fashion don't even THINK about it.
My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.
The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
