It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
Clean lines have always been important to me, both in terms of interiors as well as fashion. For interiors, I am more interested in textures and surface treatments than bold color or print - the vein on a wood or the shine on a lacquer, for example. I know immediately when something isn't working - usually it's a question of consistency - and I make instantaneous decisions on how to remedy the situation.
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
. . . Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes. " That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.
Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer. . . but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
