Historymakers Digital Archive Quotes & Sayings

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't paint women, I paint pictures ... What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way. — Henri Matisse

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me. — Henri Nouwen

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. — Tom Bissell

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands. — James Black

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. — Cyril Connolly

And for the first time in a long, long time, Karou felt the truth of it. Her heart was not wrong. — Laini Taylor

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important. — Amy Smart

being the woman that i am will make a way out of no way..[these are the words of all women of color who assert who they are, who create sound out of silence, and who build worlds out of remnants. (282 — D. Soyini Madison

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah! — Italo Calvino

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band! — David Berg