Jean Slater Quotes & Sayings

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that. — Cecily Brown

Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you ... God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me. — Tessa Dare

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night,
Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life. — Immortal Technique

If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird
That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight,
That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,
Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird! — Frances Sargent Osgood

There is no stranger under the cherry tree. — Kobayashi Issa

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. — Andre Gide

I suck," I said, after several minutes of uncomfortable silence into our drive.
"Is that some kind of vampire joke?" Trey
asked. — Richelle Mead

Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell" — George Carlin

The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he ceases to respect both himself and others. Having ceased to respect everyone, he stops loving, and then, in the absence of love, in order to occupy and divert himself, he abandons himself to passions and the gratification of coarse pleasures until his vices bring him down to the level of bestiality, and all on account of his being constantly false both to himself and to others. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive." - William Shakespeare — Norman Blume