Birth Of Venus Painting Quotes & Sayings

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. — Adam Smith

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment. — Robert Darnton

I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the same feeling towards the characters that I do. — Michael Hirst

A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face. — Michael Chabon

WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything will be okay. — Pema Chodron

Because life's too short to read depressing books. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Max:"So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof. — James Patterson

At the Uffizi, I experienced a moment that was touching, painful, and almost embarrassing. We stopped in front of the famous Botticelli painting, The Birth of Venus. I gazed wistfully at her incomparably lovely, yet, as Vasari described, oddly distorted form emerging from the waves in a seashell, her long red-golden tresses blown by Zephyrs. No woman ever had so elongated a neck or such sinuous limbs. Botticelli contorted, and some might say deformed, the human shape to give us a glimpse of the sublime. — Gary Inbinder

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. — Thomas Frank

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. — Erma Bombeck

We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best. — Susan L. Taylor

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo. — Blake Anderson

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. — Anita Baker

Tabloid stuff just offends. — William Shatner

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. — Jim Rohn

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you. — Scott Walker