Helbert Cartoon Quotes & Sayings

There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. — Charles Dickens

Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was "a way out of loneliness."
(NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) — Jonathan Franzen

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure. — William Lethaby

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport ... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness. — Frank Crowninshield

Those who create are hard of heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality. — Daniela Ruah

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. — Georges Rouault

I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us. — Sam Walton

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce. — Vilfredo Pareto

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past. — Michael Moore

Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic. — Jenny Downham

At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately. — Jean Chatzky

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Of course, I do not believe that there is such a thing as a 'value-free' science, much less a value-free 'social science.' Hence, I do not urge anything so naive as a value-free observer or observation; on the contrary, what I urge is that the observer's aims and values be as clear and explicit as possible. — Thomas Szasz

the strong feeling beginning to be manifested to Wade was not the fun of matching wits and luck with his antagonists, nor a desire to accumulate money--for his recklessness disproved that--but the liberation of the gambling passion. — Zane Grey