Szuster System Quotes & Sayings

From my own childhood I remember only a handful of incidents, all of which I regarded as momentous, but which I now understand were a few events among many, which completely expunges their meaning, for how can I know that those particular episodes that lodged themselves in my mind were decisive, and not all the others of which I remember nothing? — Karl Ove Knausgard

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. — Harold Rosenberg

And what my mother meant when she said you can't eat beauty was that you can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul. — Lupita Nyong'o

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones. — Vincent Van Gogh

I'm yours. You are not one of many lovers. There's only you, Gabrielle. — Lena Black

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence. — Matthew Syed

I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it. — Dorothy Dunnett

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points. — Calamity Jane

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am. — Pete Sampras

Life is real, and it's ugly, and it hurts. I've only ever loved three things in my life, and none of them worked out for me. — C.M. Stunich