Year: 2009

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

A. P. Herbert

“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.” A. P. Herbert quotes

A. J. Liebling

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” A. J. Liebling quotes

James Lane Allen

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” James Lane Allen quotes

Rupert Brooke

“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.” Rupert Brooke quotes

Alfred Eisenstaedt

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.” Alfred Eisenstaedt quotes

Paula Poundstone

“I don’t have a bank account because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.” Paula Poundstone quotes

Lawrence Clark Powell

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.” Lawrence Clark Powell quotes

Katharine Lee Bates

“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” Katharine Lee Bates quotes

George Edward Moore

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” George Edward Moore quotes

Adrienne Gusoff

“Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.” Adrienne Gusoff quotes

Corita Kent

“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” Corita Kent quotes

Pearl Buck

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.” Pearl Buck quotes

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