Listesi Quotes & Sayings

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes

There are 2 types of artist:
those who create for others in mind
those who create for themselves
either way, none are truly independent. — Natasha Tsakos

Perhaps I had never had a grip on myself to start with, living life on cruise-control while I waited for a home that would never be mine. It would be warm. Loving. Wonderfully chaotic, occasionally tempestuous, but full of good intentions and laughter. It would be all of the great things embodied by your run-of-the-mill greeting card, and it was still the last thing that I thought of each night as I let myself believe for a moment or two that such things were possible. — Alice Yi-Li Yeh

Even with her red-rimmed eyes she was the reason artists painted portraits. — Chelsey Philpot

You're important to me, you know," I said, squeezing him.
"I don't understand you, Pigeon. I thought I knew women, but you're so fucking confusing I don't know which way is up."
"I don't understand you, either. You're supposed to be Eastern's ladies' man. I'm not getting the full freshmen experience they promised in the brochure," I teased.
"Well, that's a first. I've never had a girl sleep with me to get me to leave her alone," he said, keeping his back to me. — Jamie McGuire

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The country has gone sane and got back to horses. — Will Rogers

Perhaps it is not so much what we learn that matters in these moments of awe and wonder, but what we feel in relationship to a world beyond ourselves, even beyond our own species. — Terry Tempest Williams

That's because our parents pick out our shoes," said Patricia. "Just wait until we're grown up. Our shoes will be insane. — Charlie Jane Anders

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before. — Geoffrey Canada

I recommend that you should work actively ... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch. — Kazimir Malevich