Jean Ingelow
“Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.”
James Baldwin
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I start a picture and I finish it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.”
A. A. Milne
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no…
Hans Hofmann
“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.”
Imelda Marcos
“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
Douglas William Jerrold
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
Ivan Turgenev
“We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars.”
Stewart Udall
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
Willem de Kooning
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”
Dan Rather
“Never eat spinach just before going on the air.”
Petrarch
“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
Alexander Smith
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
Horace
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Stephen Sondheim
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Will Durant
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Madame de Stael
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
Aesop
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Mary Roberts Rinehart
“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”
Henry Austin Dobson
“Love comes unseen; we only see it go.”
Aristotle
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”
Lee Iacocca
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real…
Steven Pinker
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
Dan Quayle
“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the…
Mortimer Adler
“Love without conversation is impossible.”
Paul Muni
“Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.”