Month: July 2009

Archibald MacLeish

“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as …

Roy Lichtenstein

“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.” Roy Lichtenstein quotes

Robert Byrne

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” Robert Byrne quotes

Sir William Bragg

“God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.” Sir …

H. E. Martz

“He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination–and taxes.”” H. E. Martz quotes

Jose Marti

“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.” Jose Marti quotes

Dorothy Bernard

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” Dorothy Bernard quotes

Douglas William Jerrold

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” Douglas William Jerrold quotes

Adolf Loos

“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.” Adolf Loos quotes

Jim Horning

“Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.” Jim Horning quotes

Umberto Eco

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to …

William R. Alger

“Words of love, are works of love.” William R. Alger quotes

Claude Debussy

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” Claude Debussy quotes

Luis Bunuel

“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” Luis Bunuel quotes

Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” Abraham Joshua Heschel quotes

George C. Marshall

“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.” George C. …

Liz Friedman

“If you really want to do something, you do it. You don’t save it for a sound bite.” Liz Friedman quotes

David Viscott

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott quotes

Jack Benny

“I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.” Jack Benny quotes

Luc de Clapier

“Patience is the art of hoping.” Luc de Clapier quotes

Christina Rossetti

“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.” Christina Rossetti quotes

Paul Gauguin

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” Paul Gauguin quotes

Charlotte Whitton

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” Charlotte Whitton quotes

Eddie Izzard

“Never put a sock in a toaster.” Eddie Izzard quotes

Loren Eiseley

“One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.” Loren Eiseley quotes

Andrew Wyeth

“One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.” Andrew Wyeth quotes

Clifford Stoll

“The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.” Clifford Stoll quotes

George S. Patton

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” George S. Patton quotes

Johannes Kepler

“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.” Johannes Kepler quotes

Mary Pickford

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” Mary Pickford quotes

Gerald R. Ford

“Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.” Gerald R. Ford quotes

Steven Pearl

“I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.” Steven Pearl quotes

Aphra Behn

“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.” Aphra Behn quotes

Mary Webb

“Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.” Mary Webb quotes

Calvin Trillin

“Health food makes me sick.” Calvin Trillin quotes

Rand Beers

“The precondition to freedom is security.” Rand Beers quotes

Johann von Neumann

“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” Johann von Neumann quotes

Edward Dmytryk

“In art, the obvious is a sin.” Edward Dmytryk quotes