Art Quotes

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

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

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.

Unknown

Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.

Anon.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A Bartlett Giamatti

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Sir Walter Scott

On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.

Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Leo Rosten

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Thomas Mann

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Anna Garlin Spence

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Dan Rathe

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Felix G. Rohatyn

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

Stephen Neill

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight D. Morrow

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

Omaha Prove

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama