Art Quotes

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
Graffito - there is no gravity. the earth sucks....
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Vauvenargues
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
John Milton
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann
Al capone - you can get a lot farther with a kind word and a...
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Oscar wilde - all that i desire to point out is the general...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.
Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
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
A heart that loves is always young.
Greek Prove
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.
L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783
Hear me, my chiefs I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Kelle
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
Dan Custe
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Anonymous
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
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.
Erich Fromm
No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Robert Byrne
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.
Benjamin H. Brewste
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
Sir Walter Raleigh