Artistik Salon Quotes & Sayings

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing
after exhausting every other possible alternative. — Winston Churchill

The facts in this story are true insofar as any memory is ever truthful, but I have made every effort to protect friends and students, baptizing them with new names and disguising them perhaps even from themselves, changing and interchanging facets of their lives so that their secrets are safe. — Azar Nafisi

One note is not music. It is what lies between the notes that makes the music. And what is between them is: their relationship. Relationships are the music life makes. Context creates meaning. Asking, "What is the meaning of life?" is the wrong question; it makes you look in the wrong places. The question is, "Where is the meaning in life?" The place to look is: between. — Carl Safina

I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form. — Clarice Lispector

A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic. — Russell Smith

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. — Alan Watts

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. — Samuel Rogers

I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation. — Mel White

I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it? — Cassandra Clare

There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means--not that it really 'means' anything--is, 'There by the grace of God goes someone else. — Christopher Hitchens

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath. — Gautama Buddha

Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night. — Amor Towles

What Texans can dream, Texans can do. — George W. Bush

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform. — Neil Armstrong