Figloans Me Quotes & Sayings

It takes many years to lay the solid foundation for final success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring. — E.B. White

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye. — Leonardo Da Vinci

[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it! — Nora Ephron

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life. — Joshua Bell

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide. — Bertie Ahern

Beautiful and sublime. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me. — Robert Smith

And every stone and every star a tongue,
And every gale of wind a curious song.
The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke
Divinity: the Earth did undertake
The office of a priest; and I being dumb
(Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come
With voices and instructions ... — Thomas Traherne

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. — Gary D. Schmidt

We have gone from holding the door out of courtesy to standing before it out of obliviousness. — John Dickerson

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. — Adam Clarke