Emitido In English Quotes & Sayings

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work. — Erin McKeown

Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know. — Orrin Woodward

A good picture book can almost be whistled ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown

Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy. — Daria Snadowsky

... after all, what is a planet but an island in space? — John Wyndham

That the printer had quietly reset The Fellowship of the Ring, and that copies had been issued without proof having been read by the author, never became known to Tolkien; while his publisher, Rayner Unwin, learned of it only thirty-eight years after the fact. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture. — Arthur C. Brooks

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. — Mitch Albom

It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Law stands mute in the midst of arms. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it. — Jean De La Bruyere