L. M. Boyd Quotes

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.

People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.