Curetted Quotes & Sayings

Don't talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. — Michael Ondaatje

Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth. — Joel T. McGrath

Doing Good to others sometimes Brings Bad to you — DK Publishing

The last remaining thing that must be communicated to the next generation is an aging figure that still continues to change. — Hideo Kojima

The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And — Lawrence A. Cunningham

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

It eat my brain?" I ask. He looks confused. "No." "Mind control?" I ask. "I wish. — Amy A. Bartol

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. — Novalis

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things. — Wallace Stevens

Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same. — Avi

The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [ ... ] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there. — Paul Pearsall

It'd be a spankiing you'd never forget, I promise you. Vishous, Lover At Last — J.R. Ward

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain — Steve Chalke