Category: Quotes of the day

Thomas Browne

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.” Thomas Browne quotes

Marie Beyon Ray

“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand… and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too …

Marianne Moore

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” Marianne Moore quotes

Audrey Hepburn

“If I get married, I want to be very married.” Audrey Hepburn quotes

Timothy Leary

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” Timothy Leary quotes

Richard J. Daley

“Good government is good politics.” Richard J. Daley quotes

Milton Berle

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” Milton Berle quotes

Hans Hofmann

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hofmann quotes

Amelia Earhart

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” Amelia Earhart quotes

John Alejandro King

“If you’re not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is …

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 …

David Cronenberg

“The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.” David Cronenberg quotes

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

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

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 …

Dorothy Bernard

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

Jose Marti

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

Claude Debussy

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

William R. Alger

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

Luc de Clapier

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

Jack Benny

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

Paul Gauguin

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

Christina Rossetti

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