Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. —Philip James Bailey More about this quote Tags: simplicity art nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. —Philip Johnson More about this quote Tags: space art architecture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every artist writes his own autobiography. —Havelock Ellis More about this quote Tags: art narcissism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wherever art appears, life disappears. —Robert Motherwell More about this quote Tags: life art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: quality preparation speeches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. —Franklin P. Jones More about this quote Tags: humor children women husbands Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: love paradise tenderness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. —Samuel Richardson More about this quote Tags: love power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's why we broke up, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place. —Daniel Handler in Why We Broke Up More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's funny — when people call you "shy," they usually smile. Like it's cute, some funny little habit you'll grow out of when you're older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt — really being shy, not just unsure at first — they wouldn't smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It's not cute at all. —Claudia Gray in Evernight More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated. —Gayle Forman in Where She Went More about this quote Tags: understanding hate anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift―or curse, perhaps―of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody? —Ann Brashares in Girls In Pants More about this quote Tags: love relationships perception inferiority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be. —Sarah Dessen in That Summer More about this quote Tags: time memory perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's the most awful feeling in the world to love someone who can't love you back. —Marie Coulson in Bound Together More about this quote Tags: feeling love reciprocation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email