18064 Quotes & Sayings

No one asks to be born, to be black or white or any color in between and yet the identity a person is born into becomes the hardest to explain to the world — A. Igoni Barrett

Oh, a sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
And a British queen
All fit together
In the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice
So many different people
In the same device. — Kurt Vonnegut

My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, but she's one of the most fantastic women I've met in my life. — Riccardo Tisci

The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles. — Mardy Grothe

Hildebrand, too, challenged the ideals of scientific naturalism by an appeal to the psychology of perception: if we attempt to analyze our mental images to discover their primary constituents, we will find them composed of sense data derived from vision and from memories of touch and movement. A sphere, for instance, appears to the eye as a flat disk; it is touch which informs us of the properties of space and form. Any attempt on the part of the artist to eliminate this knowledge is futile, for without it he would not perceive the world at all. His task is, on the contrary, to compensate for the absence of movement in his work by clarifying his image and thus conveying not only visual sensations but also those memories of touch which enable us to reconstitute the three-dimensional form in our minds. — E.H. Gombrich

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when
you are alone? — Anthony De Mello

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day. — David Gilmour

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head. — Maisie Williams

Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written anything for one hundred years after his crucifixition, we would still know about him from two authors not among his supporters. Their names are Flavius Josephus and Cornelius Tacitus. — John Dominic Crossan

With some enemies, it's safer to let them destroy themselves. The — Rachel Caine

HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling. — Sinclair Lewis

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. — Lincoln Chafee