Oveissi Painting Quotes & Sayings

However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy. — CLAMP

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it. — Valerie Wilson Wesley

Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you ... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival. — Sara Genn

I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see ... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle. — David Fincher

Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him. — Lerone Bennett Jr.

He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want. — Lionel Shriver

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence. — Saul Williams

He reached out, capturing her hand in his. He laced his fingers casually through hers.
Violet leaned against him and the calm finally came, settling over her peacefully.
And then he kissed her. Gently. Softly. Not on the lips, as she'd imagined so many times before, but on her forehead.
The gesture was sweet and a little possessive.
Violet hoped, maybe, it was a start. — Kimberly Derting

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. — John F. Kennedy

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. — George Bernard Shaw

I've learned to stare at things. The walls. My hands. The cracks in the walls. The lines on my fingers. The shades of gray in the concrete. The shape of my fingernails. I pick one thing and stare at it for what must be hours. I keep time in my head by counting the seconds as they pass. I keep days in my head by writing them down. Today is day two. Today is the second day. Today is a day.
Today.
It's so cold. It's so cold. It's so cold.
Please please please
I started screaming today. — Tahereh Mafi

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine. — Camille Claudel

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job. — Samantha Morton