The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
AASIF MANDVIThere are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
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I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I’ve also practiced extreme martial arts.
BOOBOO STEWART -
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
THOMAS PYNCHON -
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
TORI AMOS -
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
THERESE OF LISIEUX -
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
Mohammad founded a state which soon became an empire, so that Islam from the very beginning is involved with government, with politics. And therefore there is a very clear strong political tradition in Islam.
BERNARD LEWIS -
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWIN -
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
MARLENE DIETRICH -
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
BILLY WILDER -
I am happy on my own so here I’ll stay. Save your loving arms for a rainy day.
ED SHEERAN -
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
BOYD K. PACKER -
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
BILL WATTERSON -
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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