179 quotes found
“I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!”
“One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.”
“There are some things you cant learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.”
“... the reader is probably wondering that if Tolkien did indeed fashion two of his heroic characters from Catholic prophecies, what about the evil protagonists? Were any of them inspired by these l...”
“Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In other words ~ he wrote about what interested him ~ and despite his protestation of including any...”
“Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?”
“You cant enjoy art or books in a hurry.”
“I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.”
“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”
“Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.”
“It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent...”
“...its just another one of those things I dont understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish yo...”
“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.”
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and...”
“While youre singing something romantic, I cant get the lyrics to Love and Marriage out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.”
“Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.”
“Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.”
“Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first timethe parties"What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the library?I...”
“(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait Ive seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it, Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre ...”
“... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadnt seen the last time she was a visitor to his strange chamber, it appeared to be a mass of hard drives all fused togeth...”
