Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. ~Jules Feiffer
All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it’s looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain
Architecture begins where engineering ends. ~Walter Gropius
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K. Chesterton
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ~Marie Laurencin
Art is Man’s nature. Nature is god’s art. ~James Bailey
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. ~Robert Brault,
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~John
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Sexy Quote
E. Y. Harburg: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse Mason Cooley: Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
homas J. Watson, Sr.: You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Gene Mauch: I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Herb Kelleher: Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
Anonymous: Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Jean Cocteau: Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Anonymous: The secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
homas J. Watson, Sr.: You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Gene Mauch: I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Herb Kelleher: Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
Anonymous: Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Jean Cocteau: Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Anonymous: The secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Apology Quotes
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret LaurenceAn apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown
A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
It’s easier to apologize than ask for permission. ~Author Unknown
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ~King Charles I
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach
The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology. ~Author Unknown
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
It’s easier to apologize than ask for permission. ~Author Unknown
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ~King Charles I
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach
The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology. ~Author Unknown
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Romantic Quotes
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unraveled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: -So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
...Let the world know, if there was ever love:
Mine for you...
~Peter Winstanley
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unraveled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: -So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
...Let the world know, if there was ever love:
Mine for you...
~Peter Winstanley
Quotes of Relationship
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
Quotes Death
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929
There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn’t get worse every year. ~Author Unknown
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929
There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn’t get worse every year. ~Author Unknown
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
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