Betty Anns Danvers Quotes & Sayings

I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was the first to make the leap from religious art to secular. That couldn't have been a small feat. Who was brave enough to say, You know what? Enough of Jesus. I'mma paint me this here bowl of fruit and then I'mma paint my girlfriend ... naked! — Jen Lancaster

Looking in the full-length mirror, she thought, I've got everything I had twenty years ago - it's all just three inches lower. — Ken Follett

stepped into the witness box to be examined. The defense wanted jurors who empathized with Muybridge - a married man who had a runaway wife, on the one hand, and a man who confronted a sexual rival, on the other. — Edward Ball

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. — Mark Z. Danielewski

The first thing that struck me was how the single women of my acquaintance were exceptionally alert to the people around them, generous in their attention, ready to engage in conversation or share a joke. Having nobody to go home to at night had always seemed a sad and lonesome fate; now I saw that being forced to leave the house for human contact encourages a person to live more fully in the world. In the best instances, the result was an intricate lacework of friendships varying in intensity and closeness that could be, it seemed, just as sustaining as a nuclear family, and possibly more appealing. — Kate Bolick

Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused — Terry Pratchett

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. — Moira Kelly

Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over. — Jalaja Bonheim

I love the majesty of human suffering. — Alfred De Vigny

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life. — Robert Caro