Bugie Carnevale Quotes & Sayings

Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense. — Herman Melville

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance. — John French Sloan

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. — Kenneth E. Boulding

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it. — Junot Diaz

Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision. — Joseph J. Ellis

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country. — John Barrasso

The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't be all the trouble there was. — Kurt Vonnegut

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty. — Edward Abbey

The Americans were very clever; they sent rockets into space and invented machines which could think more quickly than any human being alive, but all this cleverness could also make them blind. They did not understand other people. They thought that everyone looked at things in the same way as Americans did, but they were wrong. Science was only part of the truth. There were also many other things that made the world what it was, and the Americans often failed to notice these things, although they were there all the time, under their noses. — Alexander McCall Smith

That's a very comforting response, Oliver. Of course I can trust you implicitly when all you care about is using me for your own designs. — Susan Dennard