Stone Like Paint Quotes & Sayings

I admire nudity and I like sex, and so did a lot of people in the Thirties. But, to me, overexposure blunts the fun ... Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks. Nudity is fine in the privacy of my own bedroom with the appropriate partner. Or for a model in life class at art school. Or as portrayed in stone and paint. But I don't like it used as a joke or to titillate. Or be so bloody frank about. — Mary Astor

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach — Peter Ustinov

Thank you God for making me an atheist. — Ricky Gervais

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen. — Leo Booth

If she can do the splits, the 5 second rule does not apply — Josh Stern

The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of almost every rock the lichens grew, yellow, rusty-brown, yellow-green, like patches of dirty paint daubed on the stone. — Edward Abbey

When it comes to beauty whatever makes you look good and feel good is right. — Francois Nars

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. — Sonny Liston

You keep picking me up and carting me around," she muttered. "You know, when I'm not injured or drunk on my ass, I do have two perfectly functional feet."
"You are just so magnificently portable," he told her. — Thea Harrison

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face. — Jorge Luis Borges

Though your dream may be birth by you, it has eternal potential to impact lives and generations even after you. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

She's gazing down at me, Stone-faced Chase, absolutely unforgiving, soot and ashes streaking her face like war paint. — Amie Kaufman

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence. — Swami Dhyan Giten

When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical. — Errol Morris

Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok. — Lewis Engel

He spread his paint on canvas-here light, there dark-till it looked like a streaked agate stone, and then "with little trouble," he made a finished painting emerge surprisingly out of the chaos of mixed paint. — E.H. Gombrich

And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex? — Anne Frank

I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you. — Irving Stone

An impressionist is the one who does not paint like everyone, does not obey the rules and attitude.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard. — Katherine Rundell

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately. — Graham Nash

Knowledge is courage; understanding brings calmness and humility — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah