Abstracts Art Quotes & Sayings

Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation. — Albie Sachs

Rebelliousness is not a good quality in a novice. — Elif Shafak

The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends. — Ludwig Von Mises

Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms — Mark Matousek

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. — Emile M. Cioran

I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out. — Trina Robbins

The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try to find it in the gratification of desire; we seek it in animal pleasure. Happiness lives in giving, in doing, not in getting, in grasping. — Orison Swett Marden

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. — Roald Dahl

As it was, they had never even managed a successful first date before their romance had gone the way of Romeo and Juliet's
except that Romeo and Juliet didn't wake up the next day, leave the crypt and say, Now what? — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs? — Clive Barker

My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day. — Ryan Seacrest

What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know. — Lawrence M. Krauss

I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend! — Simon Cowell

Is it possible to love forever, she asked. Don't you know what forever means? It means now, he answered. Oh then we are in love forever. — Anushka Bhartiya

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. — Sophocles

I don't get why people are always trying to escape."

"Really?" said Kate. "Take a look around."

In the distance beyond August's window, the nothing gave way to something - a town, if it could be called a town. It was more like a huddle of ramshackle structures, buildings gathered like fighters with their backs together, looking out on the night. The whole thing had a starved dog look about it. Fluorescent lights cut glaring beams through the darkness.

"I guess it's different for me," he said, his voice taut. "One moment I didn't exist and the next I did, and I spend every day scared I'll just stop beingagain, and every time I slip, every time I go dark, it's harder to come back. It's all I can do to stay where I am. Who I am."

"Wow, August," she said softly. "Way to kill the mood. — Victoria Schwab