Verlys Art Quotes & Sayings

If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward — Jodi Picoult

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all. — Winston S. Churchill

I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long. — Kurt Eichenwald

Believe in God and in yourself and then success will not pass you by — Sunday Adelaja

Technology has bridged the gap of distant communication,bringing friends and family closely together but no matter the number of 'likes', tweets, chats, comments, posts and shares, none can compare to a sincere smile, a kind kiss and a warm hug — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Fucking hell," he whispered, closing his eyes. The pain in his face mirrored the deep ache in her bones. He lifted her hand to his mouth and traced his lips slowly across her palm. With incredible gentleness, he pulled her arm toward him and pressed a warm kiss to the pulse on her wrist, his breath washing over the delicate skin and casting a spell as bottomless and dark as shame. — Mia Hopkins

With God, nothing is lost; but without him, everything is lost. — Pope Francis

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name. — C.S. Lewis

The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded. — Pope Francis

If you write "judgement" you should also write "colour" and "tyre. — Paul Brians

The mind, at length bereft
Of thinking and its pain,
Will soon disperse again,
And nothing will remain:
No, not a thing be left.

Only the ardent eye,
Only the listening ear
Can say, "The thrush was here!"
Can say, "His song was clear!"
Can live, before it die. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid. — Kristin Hannah

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire ... or preserve his freedom. — Malcolm X

I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general. — Chick Corea