Auctoritas Etymology Quotes & Sayings

Debussy
A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one. — H.L. Mencken

I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way. — Phil Robertson

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. — Samuel Johnson

What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the rational. — Robin Robertson

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station. — Adam Carolla

I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I go to the National Portrait Gallery, I'm not thinking about the sitter; I'm thinking about how the artist chose that color or that highlight. It becomes about the time, place, and context. — Toyin Odutola

I'd advise you, then, to quickly get rid of your burden; for until then you'll never be settled in your mind or enjoy the benefits of the blessings that God has given you. — John Bunyan

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace ... loose conciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them. — Paul Cezanne

Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves. — Paul Russell