Staying True To The Art Quotes & Sayings

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues. — Johnny Winter

She looks like she's at peace," I hear, over and over. Or "She looks just like herself, don't she?" Neither one of these is true. She looks like an illustration in a book, two-dimensional, when she ought to be leaping off the page. When — Jodi Picoult

Then there was someone else I met,
whose face and voice I can't forget,
and the memory of her
is like a jail I'm trapped inside,
or maybe she is something I just use
to hold my real life at a distance. — Tony Hoagland

I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds. — Hasan Of Basra

Don't call me a Postmodern! — Wayne Rooney

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one. — Fanny Fern

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. — Zane Grey

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over. — Andy Van Slyke

Inventions are smarter than their inventors — Larrie D. Ferreiro

I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well. — Nina Sankovitch

Safety and security indeed stifles creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. Yet again I create to live of it safe and secure one day, if not everyday... — Nathan Haddish Mogos

Perfection can be a mask for imperfection. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into. — Rachel Roy

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII

When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one. — Daniel Kehlmann