Lippa Table Quotes & Sayings

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. — Lucian Freud

Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wait for them to go to school and hope for the best. — Tony Buzan

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know. — Robert Fulghum

Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead. Biological reductionism nurtures this 'living down', which is why people so readily fall for it. It makes cynicism respectable and degeneracy chic. It abolishes our kind, and with it our kindness. — Roger Scruton

There's more to life than sitting there interfacing, it might be
a newsflash to you. — David Foster Wallace

Time is a powerful friend or adversary. — Pepper D. Basham

It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that. — Mustafa Akyol

In a lot of comedies, they kind of take all the problems away from the women. They give her great clothes, great hair; she almost always owns an artisanal shop, like a cheese shop in Manhattan. — Melissa McCarthy

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar. — Alex Clare