Art Quotes
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.Elbert Hubbard
All art is an imitation of nature.Seneca
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.Nora Ephron
A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.Dan Seligman
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.Victor Hugo
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
God is seated in the hearts of all.Bhagavad Gita
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Breme
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.Julia A. Fletcher Carney
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
I think, therefore Descartes exists.Saul Steinberg
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.Jim Beggs
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.Norman Vincent Peale
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
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
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.Virgil
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.Bob Allisat
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.William Shakespeare
But did thee feel the earth move?Ernest Hemingway
In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.Henri Cartier - Bresson
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.Rudyard Kipling
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates
To measure the man, measure his heart.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
