Funny Count Your Blessings Quotes & Sayings

As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.
And once you let it out of the house - once someone else gets to experience it - everything is changed.
You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.
That's the alchemy of art. — Sam Bennett

Being broke is a joke, I never found it funny / That's why I count my blessings / As much as I count my money ... — Fabolous

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years. — Bill Maris

People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place. — Richard Misrach

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming

I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world. — T.C. Boyle

Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have ever seen."
"Japanese kitten,
Put your tongue back in where it belongs
And go away.
I know exactly what you are thinking. — Paul Gallico

The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart, and felt that she could come to church no more. — Thomas Hardy

When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people. — Dwyane Wade

When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without. — Paramahansa Yogananda

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to have mankind and womankind realize that there is something greater than what we see on the surface. — Marvin Gaye

To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn. — Debasish Mridha

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous. — Thomas Merton

The personal love Christ has for you is infinite - the small difficulty you have regarding the church is finite.... What is happening on the surface of the church will pass, but Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. — Mary Poplin

27If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you! — Anonymous

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life. — Anthony Browne