An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.
Joan Didion
We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
James Clerk Maxwell
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!
Sorin Cerin
Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
Arthur Desmond
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Alexander Pope
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Mark Twain
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
Thom Yorke
The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
Stephen King
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