Lord Henry Aestheticism Quotes & Sayings

I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative. — Patrick Labyorteaux

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!) — Nick Hornby

Some people were like that; they could not escape criticism, because they never quite managed to convince themselves of the role everyone believed they should fill. — Meredith Duran

You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch. — Sylvain Neuvel

Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught. — David McCullough

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language. — Narendra Modi

As a typical Londoner, Gurcan had a high tolerance for random thoughtlessness; after all, if you live in the big city there's no point complaining that it's a big city, but even that tolerance has its limit and the name of that limit is 'taking the piss'. — Ben Aaronovitch

None of us understand the infinite universe. Most people who start thinking about it, get overwhelmed, shrug their shoulders, and turn their attention back to something mundane, like drinking beer or watching TV. Only a few great minds have ever actually contemplated the nature of the universe. Fewer still have done it without going insane. — Gudjon Bergmann

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I notice a lot of hitters fraternize with pitchers. I see guys laughing and giggling before the game. These are the same pitchers who are trying to beat them. I've never seen Roger Clemens talking to hitters before the game. Bob Gibson was the same way. Man, I don't even see (Greg) Maddux playing golf with hitters. — Albert Belle

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don't make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy. — Ellen Gallagher