J H Newman Quotes & Sayings

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people. — John Henry Newman

All good art is abstract. — John Newman

You say somebody's guilty, everybody believes you. You say they're innocent, nobody cares. — Paul Newman

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea. — John Henry Newman

Short people got no reason to live. — Randy Newman

when u have no enemies ,you are characterless. — Paul Newman

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it. — Joan Collins

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. — John Henry Newman

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. — Barnett Newman

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels. — Paul Newman

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected. — Randy Newman

Man is emphatically self-made. — John Henry Newman

Everybody possesses knowledge and experience that is considered to be unique to them alone; therefore, everyone has something to learn from everyone else. — C W Newman

I think "majority" is one of my least favorite words. It's so often used to justify bad decisions. — Emma Newman

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it. — Randy Newman

Of course I know Julie Andrews. She's the last of the really great broads. — Paul Newman

Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit! — John Newman

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. — John Henry Newman

Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for. — John Newman

I made myself a rule: write out of love. And when you love somebody, you have to tell the truth about who they are - not the cute "truth" in your head of who they are, the one where you did everything right and they did everything wrong. — Leigh Newman

You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor. — Randy Newman

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality. — Barnett Newman

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter. — Leigh Newman

The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort. — Leigh Newman

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown. — John Henry Newman

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it. — Paul Newman

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying. — Nell Newman

The more aware individuals are of the themes that are central to their own sense of personal identity, the better they can recognize the dimensions of similarity and difference in other people that will contribute to intimate relationships. — Barbara M. Newman

That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them. — Leigh Newman

If men could menstruate ... clearly, menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event: Men would brag about how long and how much.... Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of such commercial brands as Paul Newman Tampons, Muhammed Ali's Rope-a-Dope Pads, John Wayne Maxi Pads, and Joe Namath Jock Shields - "For Those Light Bachelor Days." Gloria Steinem — Sawyer King

If you have no enemies, you have no character. — Paul Newman

Time was, I shrank from what was right, From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight, Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense And sorer shame aside; Such dread of sin was indolence, Such aim at heaven was pride. J. H. NEWMAN. — Mary W. Tileston