But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated — not with the same joy. —Rohinton Mistry in A Fine Balance More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: words writing criticism language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. —Arthur C. Clarke More about this quote Tags: humanity power space stars Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You begin with the possibilities of the material. —Robert Rauschenberg More about this quote Tags: creation possibility materials Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. —Joshua Reynolds More about this quote Tags: nature imitation replication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: accuracy quotations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: love doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. —Francis of Assisi More about this quote Tags: love prayer seeking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the long history of man, countless empires and nations have come and gone. Those which created no lasting works of art are reduced today to short footnotes in history's catalog. Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a Nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. We in America have not always been kind to the artists and the scholars who are the creators and the keepers of our vision. Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: history vision art heritage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that's how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something. —Brian Eno More about this quote Tags: art creativity effort originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. —Erin McCarthy in Hard and Fast More about this quote Tags: others knowledge faith trust Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave. —Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me? More about this quote Tags: power regret feminism comfort bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a piece of you before it's done. —R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger More about this quote Tags: love messy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who's hurt them? Maybe it's an ego thing—being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen. —Allison van Diepen in The Oracle of Dating More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. —Peter Drucker More about this quote Tags: doing nothing efficiency process Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email