Lienzo In English Quotes & Sayings

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire

My mother is alive and apparently uninjured. — Susan Ee

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. — Alice Walker

We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable. — William Faulkner

Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult. — Fred B. Craddock

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty. — Robert Owen

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again. — Richard Avedon

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I sat late, I mean late. A three-year old with insomnia is very similar to a heroin addict going through withdrawal. — Jim Gaffigan

I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket. — Virat Kohli

We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality. — Mary E. Hunt

Young, gifted, and destitute... — Tennessee Williams

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next. — Ingrid Newkirk

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran