Reposable Quotes & Sayings

There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible. — Isabella Bird

It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable ... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities ... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea. — Morris Graves

There is no assurance that people are willing to surrender their impressions even if you have presented them a moving case. — Gutierrez Mangansakan II

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel

What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, "If I could move you as much as it moved me ... if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that's why I do what I do." — Greil Marcus

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence. — Susan Sontag

There are two words for everything. — E. V. Lucas

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars! — Thomas Carlyle

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games. — Laura Marling

I don't speak Otter, ya dumbass. What are ya waitin' for? Get over here so we can get back to the rez. Unless I'm talkin' to a real otter, in which case I'm the dumbass and you can just stay over there. I — Kevin Hearne

I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated. — Rachel Kushner

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet. — Zane Grey