Barrister Gardens Quotes & Sayings

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together. — Robert Mapplethorpe

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why! — George Bernard Shaw

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card. — Johnny Bench

The only good thing in me is Christ. Without being spiritual in my life ... I am and have nothing! — Timothy Pina

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career. — Conan O'Brien

The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine. — Joseph Conrad

27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . — Ansel Adams