James Gwee Quotes & Sayings

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit and intellect
even if rejected
enrich and enlarge one's view of existence. Deadlier still, to the artist who lacks models, is the curse of ridicule, the bringing to bear on an artist's best work, especially his or her most original, most strikingly deviant, only a fund of ignorance and the presumption that as an artist's critic one's judgement is free of the restrictions imposed by prejudice, and is well informed, indeed, about all the art in the world that really matters. — Alice Walker

You know all you have to do is ask and it's yours. — Laurelin Paige

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. — Marlon Brando

Except cats couldn't read minds, of course. — J.R. Ward

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again. — William Faulkner

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores — Adriana Trigiani

When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff. — Swizz Beatz

If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice. — Chico Xavier

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it. — Rick Santorum

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them. — Dorothy Day

Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace. — John Jantsch

College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood, — Stephen King