Velazquez Las Meninas Quotes & Sayings

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. — Kate Winslet

When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Every pint bottle should contain a quart. — Boyle Roche

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid. — Steven R. McQueen

People do not die from suicide. They die from sadness. — Anonymous

In the nineteenth year and the eleventh month
speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides:
Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel
on ones we knew and loved
Praise to life though its windows blew shut
on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved
Praise to life though ones we knew and loved
loved it badly, too well, and not enough
Praise to life though it tightened like a knot
on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us
Praise to life giving room and reason
to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable.
Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could. — Adrienne Rich

For me, nothing is given. — Pharrell Williams

THE LOOK ON ADRI'S FACE WHEN CINDER ENTERED THE apartment almost made the whole ghastly ordeal worthwhile. — Marissa Meyer

This is it: somehow, in these pictures, the mystery of the accident is contained, and the explanation for Dara's subsequent behavior, for the silences and disappearances. Don't ask me how. I just do. If you don't understand that, I guess you've never had a sister — Lauren Oliver

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night ... and reduce the crime rate. — Phyllis Diller

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me. — Angie Stone

All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen. — Franco Zeffirelli

It's too hard to explain. I can't say why I love the book. I just do. You don't pick the books you fall in love with any more than you pick the people you fall in love with. It just happens, and when it happens, you know. Who's to say where love comes from? — Sarah Combs

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid. — Joaquin Sorolla

You have to learn that people are always listening. — Lauren Oliver