Arteta News Quotes & Sayings

love
is giving everything too easily
then staying to try and claw it back — Andrew McMillan

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.
(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire') — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story. — Jojo Moyes

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live. — Mahatma Gandhi

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes. — Robin A. Weiss

Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice cream shop, you can't really learn much about a person based on what kind of music they happen to like. As a personality test, it doesn't work even half the time. However, there is at least one thing you can learn: The most wretched people in the word are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time. — Chuck Klosterman

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers. — Linda Simon

... the high brutality of good intentions ... — Henry James

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection. — Henry Cuellar

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964. — Jerry Seinfeld

When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do. — William Bell

When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging. — Apollonius Of Tyana

History is a set of lies agreed upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart