Uccello Paintings Quotes & Sayings

You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free. — Michael Goorjian

Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge knows that he, too, is a criminal, exactly the same as the one who stands before him, and that he is perhaps most guilty of all for the crime of the one standing before him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry. — Christopher Owens

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner

No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that. — Francoise Gilot

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. — Kelly Link

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. — Robert South

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will. — Thomas Pynchon

When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly. — Victor Hugo

the world, and it was completely — Hannah Ford

It's rather like Happy Families, isn't it?Mrs Legal, the lawyer's wife, Miss Dose, the doctor's daughter, etc. ... So sweet and funny and old-world. You just can't think of anything nasty happening here, can you? — Agatha Christie

Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes. — Judith Orloff

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon. — Jimmy Buffett

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. — Amanda Seyfried