Posts from ‘December, 2008’

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
Courtesy while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Curiouser and curiouser!
”If everybody minded their [...]

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
That which costs little is less valued.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad [...]

Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know.
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures-and the [...]

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, [...]

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn’t deserve the good and the bad things from his life.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live [...]

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed [...]

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that’s always very flattering.
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns – the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get [...]

Life would have been static if not for change.It is what keeps us going and it is Change that Changed the history of America. Here are some quotes about it by some famous people
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting [...]

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.~Benjamin Franklin
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.~William H. Macy
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.~Bill Cosby
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.~George [...]