Art Quotes

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Louise Driscoll

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

Bible, Proverbs 23: 7

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

B. B. Warfield

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Dan Quayle

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

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

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody.

Carl Sandburg

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - - And know the place for the first time.

T. S Eliot

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holme