Artwells Quotes & Sayings

It's always tea-time. — Lewis Carroll

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship. — Jon Stewart

Must is the word ... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not ... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Her nerves extended into those tresses, and her temper could always be softened by stroking them down. When her hair was brushed she would instantly sink into stillness and look like the Sphinx. If, in passing under one of the Edgon banks, any of its thick skeins were caught, as they sometimes were, by a prickly tuft of the large Ulex Europaeus
which will act as a sort of hairbrush
she would go back a few steps, and pass against it a second time. — Thomas Hardy

In his invitation to The road-weary spiritual seekers, Jesus offered to be to them what God was to the nation of Israel while they wandered in the desert. He promised to those who followed him that he would be their shelter, defender, leader, and provider. — Will Davis Jr.

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight. — Steve Martin

She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn't known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in. — Ali Smith

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten