Gienger Centron Quotes & Sayings

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it. — Aubrey Beardsley

Pustular berk with the charisma of a plimsole — Julian Barnes

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity. — Hilary Swank

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol. — Al Gore

God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all [cno, not in any way]. — Anonymous