Art Quotes

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year - - - Everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operato

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003

The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.

Charlotte Bronte

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

J Danforth Quayle

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.

James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Theresa

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.

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

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Francis Bacon

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...

William Shakespeare

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Zelda

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein II

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Woodrow Wilson

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson