Pearl Buck
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.” Pearl Buck quotes
Month: June 2009
Victoria Holt
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” Victoria Holt quotes
Max Eastman
“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.” Max Eastman quotes
Heraclitus
“The sun is new each day.” Heraclitus quotes
Jacques Derrida
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.” Jacques Derrida quotes
E. H. Gombrich
“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.” E. H. Gombrich quotes
Farrah Gray
“In life we don?t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to …
Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.” Sarah Ban Breathnach quotes
Jean de La Fontaine
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” Jean de La Fontaine quotes
Camille Pissarro
“Paint the essential character of things.” Camille Pissarro quotes
Ella Maillart
“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.” Ella Maillart quotes
Fulton J. Sheen
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” Fulton J. Sheen quotes
Paul Theroux
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.” Paul Theroux quotes
Bill Watterson
“If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.” Bill Watterson quotes
Foster’s Law
“The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.” Foster’s Law quotes
Auguste Rodin
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” Auguste Rodin quotes
Michael Fry and T. Lewis
“The more things change, the more they remain… insane.” Michael Fry and T. Lewis quotes
Diogenes the Cynic
“Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.” Diogenes the Cynic quotes
Emile Zola
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” Emile Zola quotes
Neil Young
“Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.” Neil Young quotes
Princess Margaret
“I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.” Princess Margaret quotes
Katherine Cebrian
“I don’t even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.” Katherine Cebrian quotes
Liza Minnelli
“Reality is something you rise above.” Liza Minnelli quotes
Max Frisch
“Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.” Max Frisch quotes
Edward Steichen
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.” Edward Steichen quotes
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” Robert Green Ingersoll quotes
Danny Kaye
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.” Danny Kaye quotes
Anna Lappe
“Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action.” Anna Lappe quotes
Eddie Cantor
“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you …
Corra Harris
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.” Corra Harris quotes
Frank Stella
“A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.” Frank Stella quotes
Heinrich Heine
“There are more fools in the world than there are people.” Heinrich Heine quotes
Jean Paul
“The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.” Jean Paul quotes
Emmet Fox
“Life is consciousness.” Emmet Fox quotes
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
“You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf quotes
Mary Renault
“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.” Mary Renault quotes
Marvin Gaye
“Great artists suffer for the people.” Marvin Gaye quotes
Michael Jordan
“I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success.” Michael Jordan quotes
Claude M. Bristol
“Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.” Claude M. Bristol quotes
Henry L. Stimson
“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and …