Quote by As I Lay Dying

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

— Laozi

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the…

— Lloyd Alexander

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip…

— Andreas Gursky

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

— Joseph Joubert

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

— Vanna Bonta

In nature there are few sharp lines

— A. R. Ammons

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

— Claude Monet

Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain…

— Zicheng Hong

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

— Laurence Sterne

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

— Gustav Mahler

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

— Kathryn Bigelow