Lavilliers Cesaria Quotes & Sayings

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it. — John Singer Sargent

This was the part she hated, the part of a relationship that always nudged her to bail, the part where someone else's misery or expectations or neediness crept into her carefully prescribed world. It was such a burden, other people's lives. — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead. — Jose Saramago

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt. — Calvin Trillin

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me. — Samantha Harvey

Follow the customer, if they change, we change. — Terry Leahy

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me. — David James Duncan

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. — Simone De Beauvoir

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about. — Arnold Palmer

There are folks who can't abide camp-robber jays, but I take to them. Often enough they've been my only company for days at a time, and they surely do get friendly. They'll steal your grub right from under your nose, but who I am to criticize the lifestyle of a bird? He has his ways, I have mine. Like I say, I take to them. — Louis L'Amour

He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts. — Pawan Mishra