There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.
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All I could think about was, ‘I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.’
BRANDY NORWOOD -
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I’m not a big fan of my books going on cross-country road trips. They get arrogant and, next thing, start aspiring to become ‘large-print’ books. I say, let them stay home and be regular small-print books.
GEORGE SAUNDERS -
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUS -
He looks at me as if I’m the flame and he’s the sea; he’d turn his tide for a chance to burn with me.
ANA DEE -
What would God have me do with my life?
EZRA TAFT BENSON -
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS -
It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO -
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
LEONARDO DA VINCI -
What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
BO BURNHAM -
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
BETSY LERNER -
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
HENRI BERGSON -
I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires.
BEN HEPPNER -
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON