Flatland Church Quotes & Sayings

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm ... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art. — Georges Braque

There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
~Waddington — W. Somerset Maugham

No one has hit me. My body is fine. It's my soul that aches. It's always been my soul. — Lily Paradis

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. — Mark Twain

You can judge somebody after you at least read from 100 up to 150 books... this to be your goal for within one year. — Deyth Banger

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world. — Nick Robinson

By that point a career change was beyond consideration; he was a bottle, thrown to the sea, into which the villagers had folded their wishes, and though he was willing to give up on himself, he wasn't willing to let down those who believed he could carry them over the water. — Anthony Marra

When Jesus came near, he spoke to them. He said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." Matthew 28:18 — Dianne Neal Matthews