Velazquez Painter Quotes & Sayings

Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better ... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. — Gore Vidal

Village, and it was a long time before I heard the last of it. Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity. — Ulysses S. Grant

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters. — Malcolm X

It feels like the world is made of music, and you are the world. — B.J. Novak

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim. — Bob Dylan

Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them. — Donald Trump

I wear sunglasses almost all the time outside - not because I think I'm really, really cool, but because of the rays. — Ronda Rousey

So I placed my heart under lock and key
To take some time, and take care of me
But I turn around and you're standing here — Deborah Cox

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld

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

When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell. — Kellie Pickler

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes. — John F. Kennedy