Kostecka Group Quotes & Sayings

the law clearly stated that a man with a physical defect could not be king. — Devdutt Pattanaik

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place. — William Blake

The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful. — Sarah Polley

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. — Art Buchwald

Legal aid ... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice. — Jeremy Corbyn

We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Did God mind that dreadful singing, he who made the nightingale and the lark? Probably not. Probably it was the soul of Mrs Crabtree he was listening to, the worshipping song of her heart, and that rang true as a bell. — Penelope Wilcock

I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back. — Twiggy

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. — Kara Walker

When life gives you lemons, take out the salt and the shot-glasses and fill them up with tequila. Fight for what you really want and never, ever settle for anything less. Don't exist. Live. — Teodora Kostova

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate. — Pharrell Williams

The stitch of a book is its words. — Rumer Godden

Stars have passed judgement over the most terrible of our failures and have been the proud witnesses of our grandest triumphs. They are the silent observers of our history and lives. — Taylor P. Davidson

A great library contains the diary of the human race. — George Mercer Dawson