Mailou Jones Quotes & Sayings

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe. — John M Swomley

Top knots are the easiest thing to create. — Zendaya

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact. — Hamid Drake

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. — Henry David Thoreau

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people. — Andrew Weil

I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature. — Sheila Heti

'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism. — David Henry Hwang

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. — Iris Murdoch

Mine is a quiet exploration - a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint. — Lois Mailou Jones

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it. — Edward Carpenter

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia. — Alvaro Uribe

The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own labor relations to achieve labor peace and government efficiency and to continue our long tradition of support for workers. — Eric Schneiderman

It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book. — Alice Greczyn