Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Dolly Parton

The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.

Jane Austen

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

David Leigh Eddings

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Oprah Winfrey

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.

Jim Fiebig

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Lynda Barry

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Alexander McCall Smith

Good counselors lack no clients

William Shakespeare

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Lester Maddox