Grete Stern Quotes & Sayings

I can do a reddish-brown or brown lip, but not a bright red. I just don't look good in it. Over the years you learn certain things that don't look good on you, and that's one of them for me. — Mariah Carey

Take lack of candor ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end. — Jack Welch

I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals, — Bob Marley

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal! — Robert Orben

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ... — Hugh Prather

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. — Marcel Proust

I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much. — Kate Dickie

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative. — Lu Yen-hsun

Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains. — Lola Montez

When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction! — Steven Magee

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own. — James Cook

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time. — Tacita Dean

I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years. — Kary Mullis

You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood. — Anais Nin

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one? — Lewis Carroll