Uncorked Artist Quotes & Sayings

Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say. — Elizabeth Hawes

As long as nothing happens anything is possible ... — Graham Greene

And looking down on them, the other Londoners, those monsters who live in the air, the city's uncounted population of stone men and women and beasts, and things that are neither human nor beasts, fanged rabbits and flying hares, four-legged birds and pinioned snakes, imps with bulging eyes and duck's bills, men who are wreathed in leaves or have the heads of goats or rams; creatures with knotted coils and leather wings, with hairy ears and cloven feet, horned and roaring, feathered and scaled, some laughing, some singing, some pulling back their lips to show their teeth; lions and friars, donkeys and geese, devils with children crammed into their maws, all chewed up except for their helpless paddling feet; limestone or leaden, metalled or marbled, shrieking and sniggering above the populace, hooting and gurning and dry-heaving from buttresses, walls and roofs. — Hilary Mantel

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley

Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader. — Scott McCloud

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do. — Sigourney Weaver

Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls. — Jun Maeda

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius. — Jon Brion

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton

Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport. — Neal Stephenson

'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science. — Gottlob Frege

A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again. — Vance Havner

Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. — David Nicholls