I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Robert McKee

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Steve Berry

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

Geraldine Brooks

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad

You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

Gabby Douglas

Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back.

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I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

Ashton Kutcher

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Imelda Marcos

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Howard Crosby

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Proverbs 3:13-15

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