Masked Artist Quotes & Sayings

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself ... self-d iscipline. — Harry S. Truman

The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing nor ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, 'I don't like it!', 'It's boring!' It is not a point that one can argue; but it like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached. — Andrei Tarkovsky

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. — Bill Gates

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art. — J. W. N. Sullivan

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power. — Barbara Cartland

Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos — Saira Viola

I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more I got involved, the more I suddenly began to feel useful as a human being and felt like I was finally living as I should be. — Angelina Jolie

It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her. — Karen Joy Fowler

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In a jovial fucking mood from watching Naomi, I snap a friendly shot of my ass and message that to him, smiling when I see his face register the photo.
Miss me? — C.M. Stunich

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you "sir" and "madam," and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of "what is done" and "what is not done," and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena — Julia Child

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — Tennessee Williams

I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work. — Ralph Lauren

Reading is the magic key that takes you where you want to be. — Alice Joyce Davidson

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. — Kate DiCamillo

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. — Peace Pilgrim