Quotes
Quotes about Sin
When the amateur writer lets a bad sentence stand in his final draft, though he knows its bad, the sin is frigidity: he has not yet learned the importance of his art...
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.
I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear; Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring, So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.
When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky; So at his sight away his fellows fly, And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls; He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.]
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . .
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence; Though frail as dust it meet thine eye, He form'd this gnat who built the sky.
You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.
Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
