Art Quotes

Izaak walton - those little nimble musicians of the air, that...
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Bertie Forbes
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
Cindy Lew
Israel zangwill - in how many lives does love really play a...
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.
Annie Gottlie
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - The best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury
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
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.
Franz Kafka
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
Virgil
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
Robert Englund
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Ronald Reagan
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
Will Rogers
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Steven King, The Stand
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Martin Luthe
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
Eugene McCarthy
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.
Joseph Bonaparte
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best - - - Or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.
David Fiedler, in _Byte_
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
Benjamin H. Brewste
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
John Andrew Holmes
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.
Roosevelt, Eleano
When making personal decisions, listen to what your head says then listen to what your heart says. If they differ, follow your heart Whenever you listen to your heart, you listen to that part of you that is most interested in your well - Being.
Unknown
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
M. C. Richards
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.
George Gordon Byron
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.
Robert