Sfumato Quotes & Sayings

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

That's quite all right, I said. Sfumato, that was what the painters called it; a blurring or elision of the lines, the kind Leonardo had used to give his Mona Lisa her beguiling flux. — Paul Murray

That's the interferingest chap I ever see, — Louisa May Alcott

Shame is removed through love. — Danny Silk

Bottom line - the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options. — Barry Schwartz

It's scary how you can be haunted by someone who is still alive. — R. YS Perez

Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death in 1784, of producing what is now held to be a model of biography; rich in detail and anecdote, a complete picture of the man and his times, traced over a period of more than twenty years. Boswell's Life of Johnson, published in 1791, carries on Johnson's own contribution to the growing art of biography, and consolidates Johnson's position as a major literary figure, who, although a poet and a novelist, is remembered more for his academic and critical achievement than for his creative writings. — Ronald Carter

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal. — Jeff Miller

I only work with a couple of co-writers who I'm really close with, so they always know what's going on in my life and we talk about things openly, they know every song is true to something that I'm either going through or have gone through before. — LIZ

I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it — Marvin Hagler

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it. — Tim Conway

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love. — Jennifer Lopez

I think carrying your gut, or your instincts, through all the learning, is one of the most important things. You learn to prepare for a part in different ways, you learn to experiment, what you do for the character - you try working in different ways. — Paul Dano

A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still baking oven (so Pierius in his Hieroglyph compares it), another hell. — Robert Burton

Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it's because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. — Robert McCammon

The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future. — Scott Adams