Art Quotes
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.Stanislaw Lec
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.Percival
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.Henry Anatole Grunwald
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.Ronnie Hawkins
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.John A. Locke
Hear the other side. Audi Partem Alteram.Saint Augustine
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.A Bartlett Giamatti
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Politics is largely a matter of heart.R. A. Butle
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.John Petit - Senn
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.Walter Lippmann
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Anna Quindlen
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.Dave Barry
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.Mary Ellen Kelly
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.Becky Rodenbeck
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.Longfellow
We only part to meet again.John Gay
California, the department store state.Raymond Chandle
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.E. M. Cioran
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Hellen Kelle
It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
Art is a lie that tells the truth.Pablo Picasso
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.Donald O. Rickte
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.Mahatma Gandhi
There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.Plato
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
