Art Quotes

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lam

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.

Archimedes

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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 few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.

Edwin Markham

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Dazed and Confused

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

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

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Henry Watton

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Unknown

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8

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

In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Serbian Prove

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Mark Twain

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Prove

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

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

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mignon McLaughlin

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Jay Leno

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton