George S. Patton
“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” George S. Patton quotes
Category: Quotes of the day
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
Steven Pearl
“I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.” Steven Pearl quotes
Gerald R. Ford
“Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.” Gerald R. Ford quotes
Calvin Trillin
“Health food makes me sick.” Calvin Trillin quotes
Mary Webb
“Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.” Mary Webb quotes
Aphra Behn
“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.” Aphra Behn 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
A. P. Herbert
“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.” A. P. Herbert quotes
Edward Dmytryk
“In art, the obvious is a sin.” Edward Dmytryk 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
Paula Poundstone
“I don’t have a bank account because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.” Paula Poundstone quotes
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.” Alfred Eisenstaedt 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
Adrienne Gusoff
“Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.” Adrienne Gusoff quotes
George Edward Moore
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” George Edward Moore quotes
Corita Kent
“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” Corita Kent quotes
Victoria Holt
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” Victoria Holt quotes
Pearl Buck
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.” Pearl Buck quotes
Heraclitus
“The sun is new each day.” Heraclitus quotes
Max Eastman
“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.” Max Eastman 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
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
Paul Theroux
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.” Paul Theroux 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
Diogenes the Cynic
“Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.” Diogenes the Cynic quotes
Michael Fry and T. Lewis
“The more things change, the more they remain… insane.” Michael Fry and T. Lewis quotes