Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Brook
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
Laura Marling
The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.
C.S. Lewis
As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away.
Hughes Mearns, The Psychoed
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
Robbie Coltraine
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.The very deep did rot: O Christ!That ever this should be!Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rim
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
Charles Dickens
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for song;Wild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night long;Sad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong!
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dirge
I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-
John Green
Arguing with a 3-year old is not too unlike defusing a bomb. Cut the right wire, crisis avoided â¤ï¸. Cut the wrong one or take too long, 💥.
David Heinemeier Hansson
You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
Paul Farmer
If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.http://www.bartleby.com/42/637.html
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Morte D'Ar
Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic. I mimic myshadow.
Steven Wright
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
Simon Wiesenthal
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
Freddie Mercury
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds.note: this was supposedly quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer on July 16, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was tested
Hindu Spiritual, Bhagavad Gita
I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
Mary J. Blige
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Pr
I'm scared of the unknown future.
Bethenny Frankel
This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye.
William Blake, The Everlasting G
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Alfred E. Smith
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Laura Swenson
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
David Ogden Stiers
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
Albert Camus
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Elean
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
I definitely believe in marriage.
Michael Strahan
I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.Executed (shot) for helping allied soldiers to escape from Brussels to neutral territory in Holland during World War I.http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/
Edith Cavell, Last words
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
Orson Scott Card
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
Jerry Seinfeld
Love builds bridges where there are none.
R. H. Delaney
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
Sicilian Proverb
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