Grant Wood Famous Quotes & Sayings

To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you. — Jack Canfield

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury. — Jane Swisshelm

A vast sector of modern advertising ... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually. — Erich Fromm

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back — Maggie Stiefvater

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.-A Great and Terrible Beauty — Libba Bray

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan

Thy light so bright the world does illuminate from thee but even men with healthy eyes can choose not to see. — Raneem Kayyali

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. - Sufi proverb — Margaret Atwood

And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard. Am I right? — Anonymous

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. — Bernard DeVoto

Love without happiness is like a garden without flowers. I don't believe in it. — Marty Rubin

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others. — Ben Lerner

She says that in January 1990 when the Berliners saw the smoke coming out of the chimneys they came here to protest. They brought bricks and rocks and built a symbolic wall around the building, to get the Stasi to stop burning the files. She says it is extraordinary that, with all those stones, not one was thrown and that, conversely, not one shot was fired from this building. — Anna Funder

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. — Aleksandar Hemon