Checkerboards Pizza Quotes & Sayings

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you. — Jeff Koons

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is. — Cixin Liu

There are no friends; only moments of friendship. — Jules Renard

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier ... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. — Steven Wright

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me. — Drew Barrymore

I wasn't so inclined to tell anyone else in my family about my plan. It was very new and felt about as vulnerable as a day-old mouse, its eyelids still sealed shut. — Jeanne Ray

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
[Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) — Clare Winger Harris

Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. — W. W. Rouse Ball

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I want to look at you as you kill me. — Curtis Jobling

Being an elite is not a mere possession or something "within" an actor (skills, talents, and human capital); it is an embodied performative act enabled by by both possessions and the inscriptions that accompany experiences within elite institutions (schools, clubs, families, networks, etc.). Our bodily tastes, dispositions, and tendencies are not simply something we're born with; they are things that are produced through our experiences in the world. Not only do they occur in our minds, but they are things we enact repeatedly so that soon these performances look less and less like an artificial role we're playing- a role that might advantage us- and instead look more and more like just who we naturally are. pg. 136 — Shamus Rahman Khan

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by. — Terry Rossio

If you can fight, you don't have to fight. And you don't have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say. — Martin Amis