Quotes & Sayings About Artsy Pics

Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly. — Baltasar Gracian

I forget myself sometimes, but then I look up, as I am looking up now, and I see in my mind's eye a sheild, strangely changed by a rich encrusting of jewel-like barnacles and cold-water coral, with an eight foot tooth sticking right out of the middle of it. I reach out and the edge of that tooth is still so bitingly sharp after all these years that just a gentle brush with the fingers might send a rain of blood down on these pages. And I bend my head, not too close, and I am sure I can hear, very faintly:
Once I set the sea alight
With a single fiery breath ...
Once I was so mighty that I thought
My name was Death ...
Sing out loud until you're eaten,
Song of melancholy blisss,
For the mighty and the middling
All shall come to THIS ...
The Supper is still singing. — Cressida Cowell

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in. — Romesh Gunesekera

Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart. — John O'Donohue

We're not cannibals,' he said as if to remind them. 'Cannibals boil people alive in cauldrons. I prefer to think of ourselves as evolved eaters. As a family, we're at the forefront of fine dining. Human flesh is an acquired taste, and I've worked hard to give you all the chance to appreciate it for yourselves. — Matt Whyman

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations. — David L. Weimer

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy. — Thomas Merton

The secret of what passed between him and the strange girl who — Henry James

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star. — Hedda Hopper

You've opened the gate. Now it's a matter of walking through. — Andrea Cremer