Art Quotes
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles
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
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Socrates
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.Denis Diderot
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste Colbert
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.Dan Quayle
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.Ellen Gilcrist
I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens
No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...William Wadsworth
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.Rupert Brooke
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.Ayn Rand, Anthem
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.Thomas Carlye
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.George Washington Carve
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.Jim Bishop
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.W. Edward Brown
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.Lyndon B. Johnson
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.Miguel de Cervantes
A light heart lives long.Irish Prove
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
