Housepainter Quotes & Sayings

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other. — John Lennon

Fewer than half a dozen men — Robert Davis

Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious. — E. E. Cummings

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

didn't know what a date was and I wasn't an anomaly. Most of the girls I knew didn't get asked out on dates. People got together through alcohol and a process of elimination. If they had anything in common beyond that they would go out and have a conversation. — Stephanie Danler

One of the primary purposes of suffering is not to weaken the heart of the feeble, but to strengthen the spirit of the brave. — Sebastian De Assis

My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love.
Slowly, I got to my feet.
Speak to me, I thought.
And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus:
Have you lost your mind? — Cameron Dokey

I have been capable of some mischief in the past. I know what rebellion feels like. Everyone and everything is provided with a destiny, but there is no obligation whatsoever to fulfill it. Some just prefer to ignore the humming of their soul. — E.A.A. Wilson

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties! — Henry David Thoreau

If love was a disease, I'd been cured. — Melissa Kantor

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want. — Lao-Tzu

Thomas was the most loving, wonderful, and attentive husband that I could ever imagine on some days, and on others it was as if I married Lucifer himself. — Sara Niles

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list. — Jerry Pournelle

Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person."
Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal? — Dean Koontz