Art Quotes

Saki - people may say what they like about the decay of...
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense
Robert burton - a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may...
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
James Thurbe
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Gail Pool
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis
Bertrand russell - whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done...
Start slow and taper off.
Walt Stack
When I was one - And - Twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away. Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. But I was one - And - Twenty, No use to talk to me.
A. E. Houseman
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.
Loren
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
John Ruskin
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
John Andrew Holmes
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
Irving Layton
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - - The acid, final test.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Charles Peguy
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Mount Hufstedle
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Martin Luthe
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
William Shakespeare
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Arthur Baldwin
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
Charles Horton Cooley
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
Japanese Prove
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...
Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Eugene McCarthy
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow