Corby Hall Quotes & Sayings

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero. — Michelle Yeoh

It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you. — Lynne Reid Banks

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights ... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong. — James Young

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine. — Lucretius

And I think, Wow, I did it. I actually managed to die of a stroke at age 17. — Tahereh Mafi

And when I couldn't get high, some of the days were a hundred hours long. — Stephen King

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him. — Titania Hardie

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is - it's revenge. — Kurt Vonnegut

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over. — Eudora Welty

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think. — Boris Vian