A Work Of Artifice Quotes & Sayings

found out about your dad?' 'Then I escaped. I wanted to tell — J.S. Monroe

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples! — Sam Donaldson

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure. — Frederick Lenz

With living creatures / one must begin very early / to dwarf their growth : / the bound feet, / the crippled brain, / the hair curlers, / the hands you / love to touch. — Marge Piercy

That is the most odiously aristocratic belief, — Stephen Crane

To justify God's ways to man. — A.E. Housman

Then of course there are the people who don't see their deaths coming. — M.B. Julien

Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale. — Lewis Carroll

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could lend you a very fast horse" - Death — Terry Pratchett

Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding. — Augustus William Hare

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important. — Arnold Palmer

Is she okay?" Harlen's throat was clogged with stones of fear. "She has to be okay. — Erin Kellison

What we know might actually mask what we don't know and impede our ability to learn and perform. All — Liz Wiseman

The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out. — Anne Tyler

Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs, you know. And I still do most of my own printing. I've developed such a profound distaste for touch-up and modern artifice - comes from snapping too many derelicts and detritus, perhaps, but I love it. Photo bloody Shop can go stuff it. A picture should be honest, even if the subject is contrived on the ground, you know; not dolled-up for advertising punch or sex appeal. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke of its relationship to other events in world history: When all is said and done, when all of history is examined, when the deepest depths of the human mind have been explored, there is nothing so wonderful, so majestic, so tremendous as this act of grace. — Tad R. Callister

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. — Jean Baudrillard

know a Work of Art from a Daub of Artifice) — Thomas Carlyle