Art Quotes
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.Marian Anderson
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Francis Behan
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.Unknown
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.Unknown
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.Henry Watton
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.Christian Cardell Corbet
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.Judy Garland
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.Ralph J. Smith
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.Johann von Goethe
The beginning is the most important part of the work.Plato, The Republic
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.Cicero
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.William Makepeace Thackery
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful what you set your heart upon - For it will surely be yours.James Arthur Baldwin
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.Lauren Bacall
I am a part of all I have read.John Kieran
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.Izaak Walton
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.Bernard Berenson
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.Francois Delsarte
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.Kahlil Gibran
Kenneth Star... has done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.Henry Drummond
