Art Quotes

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Julius Henry Marx

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.

Arnold Bennett

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Robert Englund

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Emmet Fox

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot, Romola

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

John Andrew Holmes

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Samuel Adams

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.

Unknown

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p. 13

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.

Browning

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King.

Ramsey Clark

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forste