If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

Marty Rubin

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

John Sexton

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Robert Carlyle

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Rachel Field

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

Jane Austen

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Aldo Leopold

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

Tara Strong

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Roy Barnes

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;-- but when a beginning is made-- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt-- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

Jane Austen