Sfumato Technique Quotes & Sayings

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible. — P. J. O'Rourke

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts. — Chogyam Trungpa

For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that. — Steven Seagal

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You know I find surprises vulgar," Lady Kent said, waving her hand dismissively and shifting her gaze to me. "You are acquainted with Miss Madeline Verinder, I presume?"

"Good evening, Miss Verinder," I said, exchanging curtsies with the sweetest, gentlest, most accomplished, and most amiable girl in all of London. At least that is what I had continually repeated to myself the past season, so I wouldn't slap her by sheer reflex whenever she entered my conversations with Mr. Kent and turned them into competitions for his attention. — Tarun Shanker

This is the way I've always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked away. — Jael McHenry

success is 99% failure — Henry Ford

To read a work one must also read the underlying infrastructure to make legible its aesthetic and political composition. This ability to read a phenomenon based on the infrastructures of resonance around it is what I refer to as seeing power. The — Nato Thompson

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual. — Joan D. Vinge

I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect. — Oprah Winfrey

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell. — Thomas Brooks

The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people, or dinosaurs, or small, single-celled organisms that decided one day to become larger, multicelled organisms so they could, at some point in the future, invent literature, painting, and annoying ring tones for cell phones. — John Connolly

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks. — Simon Armitage

In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women. — Bell Hooks

I only looked when I was sure he couldn't see me. Some games are too dangerous to play. — Seanan McGuire