Varnishing Watercolor Quotes & Sayings

THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER. — Cornelius Mathews

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies. — Hermann Hesse

Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible. — Arnulf Rainer

All I know is that I'm in love with you," he said, almost angrily. "That the sight of you, the scent of you, the sound of your voice - I can't help myself, I can't stop it, I can't think of anything else. You've made me completely useless. — Lee Nichols

I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had had several successful revue songs on Broadway. — Sheldon Harnick

That's the world something simpler... humans, mankinds make it complex. — Deyth Banger

He has been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future. — Kate Atkinson

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up. — George R R Martin

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art our innermost and carries us from town, from country, from earth, as that it must be truely a blessing of the Gods. — Felix Mendelssohn

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED! — Arkady Strugatsky

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs — Nancy Pelosi

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy. — Karl Popper

Not only is [a mother] entrusted with the guardianship of the intellect and character of the world's statesmen and philosophers, but her gentle presence, as she bends over the cradle, and the silent influence of her daily life are shaping the entire moral character of the coming generation. — C.E. Sargent

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. — Sophie Scholl

I made a promise to myself that if I came out of my situation alive, I had to make something of myself. — Dave Pelzer