Art Quotes

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan Quayle, 11/30/88

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]

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Brenda Ueland

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Edward Gibbon

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Jesse Louis Jackson

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

German prove

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

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer, The Odyssey

Diversity the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

I am a part of all I have read.

John Kieran

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

Chinese Prove

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Dave Barry

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

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin