Grafalloy Quotes & Sayings

There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant. — Joyce Maynard

When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.' — Kristy Swanson

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through. — William S. Burroughs

When there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war. — Gertrude Stein

I follow the Way of Love,
and where Love's caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency. — Nalini Singh

The last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful. — Charlotte Bronte

Treasures in heaven are more permanent. They are more satisfying. There are only two reasons why we are not as successful as we would like to be in laying up earthly treasures. One is that we sometimes get into the wrong business; and the second reason is that even though we may be in the right business, we do not always work at it effectively. Interestingly enough, these are the same reasons why we fail in laying up treasures in heaven. — Sterling W. Sill

We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade. — Harold Ramis

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk. — Michael Crichton

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything. — Susan Rice