Clidastes Quotes & Sayings

You said how Michelangelo was a manic-depressive who portrayed himself as a flayed martyr in his painting. Henri Matisse gave up being a lawyer because of appendicitis. Robert Schumann only began composing after his right hand became paralyzed and ended his career as a concert pianist. (...) You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death. Frida Kahlo and the spina bifida that covered her legs with bleeding sores. Lord Byron and his clubfoot. The Bronte sisters and their tuberculosis. Mark Rothko and his suicide. Flannery O'Connor and her lupus. Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

"According to Thomas Mann," Peter said, "'Great artists are great invalids. — Chuck Palahniuk

Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work. — Ellen DeGeneres

Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome. — J.K. Rowling

Hard places breed hard men, and hard men rule the world. — George R R Martin

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. — Jack London

I didn't panic until my chest collapsed and I couldn't breathe. I gasped until I no longer had a throat to do it with. I didn't feel like I was holding my breath - it was more like I had no lungs. — Rick Chiantaretto

We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved. — Mackenzi Lee

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work. — Elizabeth Banks

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first. — Max Lucado

Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything — Ryan Tedder

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon. — Carol Leifer

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men. — George Wald

Focus on doing small things consistently rather than a big thing once a while — Dhaval Gajera