It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Friedrich von Schiller

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

Anon.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

William E. Rothschild

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Henry David Thoreau

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

David Hockney

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand.

Shawn Klomparens

Woman was domesticated so that man could be tamed. When will we unite and rise up against the livestock?

Bauvard

Revolutions are always verbose.

Leon Trotsky

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Caleb Colton

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Jesse McCartney

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Anthony J. F. O'Reilly