Dadaist Painter Quotes & Sayings

The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros hugging patchy dirt. Gradually it let go, began to green on me a little. I crossed a river, watched succulents get fatter and farmland start to wave, hoarding the blue above and the few clouds it had to spare.

I knew the route somehow, knew the curves, the directions, the exact way to go. I knew it the way you know the stars are still up in the sky even though white sun obscures them. Everything that had happened before Lukeville and Sonoita began to liquify in memory, feeling more like fiction than personal history. Funerals and pain, girlfriends and mothers, roommates and priests all tumble away with the desert behind me. The only thing that's real is the road I see ahead. The only person in my life is the man sitting silently beside me. The place I'm going is the only place I've ever wanted to go. — Laurie Perez

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. — William Penn

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say. — Courtney Milan

He seemed constantly impressed with the idea that, at the moment of his extinction, the noble fabric which he [sewed], must infallibly sink in ruins. For this, as in every other respect, the citizens of the United States are more fortunate than the Romans, as there is every reason to believe that the benefits of the present enlightened administration will extend to other generations. The — Jon Meacham

He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers. — Michael Lewis

I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport. — Godfrey

I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India ... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things. — Sania Mirza

It is important to have friends we can trust. But it is essential to trust the Lord, who never lets us down. — Pope Francis

I did not act in this fashion deliberately; I did not prefer this kind of relationship with people. I wanted a life in which there was a constant oneness of feeling with others, in which the basic emotions of life were shared, in which common memory formed a common past, in which collective hope reflected a national future. But I knew that no such thing was possible in my environment. The only ways in which I felt that my feelings could go outward without fear of rude rebuff or searing reprisal was in writing or reading, and to me they were ways of living. — Richard Wright

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse. — Carine Roitfeld

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds. — Sholem Asch

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. — Tacitus

Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you. — Edward Hirsch

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence ... — Pat Metheny

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people. — Huey Newton