Art Quotes

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Jesse Louis Jackson

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.

Andrew Schneide

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

H. S. Thompson

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Sue Patton Thoele

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - The best part under ground.

Thomas Overbury

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Frances Burnett

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

W. T. Ellis

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Dan Quayle

I am a part of all I have seen.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

John 174 Bible

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Frank Moore Colby

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Isaac Watts

The great thing is the start - To see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - And him for nothing.

Robert Collie

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Janet Long

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

Anonymous

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold Geneen

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck