Travesty Def Quotes & Sayings

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. — Ambrose Bierce

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting — Edouard Vuillard

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham

I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it. — Wolfgang Beltracchi

The device,' Philip said. 'What are you going to do with it?'

'I know how this sounds. But you'll have to trust us. We'll take possession of it. We're going to dismantle it; when we do so, the wormhole will close, making this the final version of history we live through. Then we're going to box up the device and forget about it. Lose it somewhere; burn the records. It'll end up in a warehouse right next to the Ark of Covenant. — Dexter Palmer

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. — Gautama Buddha

he said: (1) accept yourself, (2) forget yourself, (3) find something to do and to care about that is more important to you than you are. — John Holt

Never depend on another person for your happiness. If someone had the authority to give, then he or she had the authority to take away. — Sejal Badani