Art Quotes

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

Joel Patrick Warneke

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Tieck

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams

I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

Benito Perez Galdos

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkne

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Al Capone

Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.

Ripley D. Saunders

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Author Unknown

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

This Is Spinal Tap

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us - - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.

Mike Singletary

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Clive Staples Lewis

When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.

John Milton

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Dan Seligman

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole