Art Quotes
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.Martin Luther King Jr.
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.Jean Ke
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.Matthew Green (c. 1737)
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
A fool and his money are soon parted.Thomas Tusse
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.General Omar Nelson Bradley
Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.Anon.
There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.Mark Twain
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.Michel de Montaigne
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.Karl Kraus
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.Andy Warhol
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.Karen Blixen
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.Steven King, The Stand
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.W. H. Auden
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.Aristotle, Metaphysica
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving
