Volontiers In English Quotes & Sayings

Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. — Meister Eckhart

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain

...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed. — H.D.F. Kitto

You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that's what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris ... they aren't rappin' and cussin' like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It's all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself. — Luke Bryan

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The radio makes hideous sounds. — Bob Dylan

She wondered how powerful money could actually be, if one had enough of it, really enough. She supposed that only the Vireks of the world could really know, and very likely they were functionally incapable of knowing; asking Virek would be like interrogating a fish in order to learn more about water. — William Gibson

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping! — Rudolf Rocker

You call our upbringing normal?"
"Mostly, yes! Don't get all revisionist. I was queer and lonely. You were weird and hungry. It wasn't nature or nurture. We're the ones who cultivated our abnormalities. — Rodney Ross

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. — Pablo Picasso

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written. — Jess Walter

Explaining God to Children
Draw a rapid river clockwise, flowing in a circle.
Draw a mountain in the middle, with heaven at the tip.
Tell a child,
'God is the top of the mountain.
Man is the river.
Only God's sees we're in a big hurry going nowhere.'
The clever child will ask,
'What does man see?'
Tell the child,
'Well, man sees there's a light side to God ~ and maybe a dark side too,
depending on where he's at.
Man sometimes doesn't see God at all because there are clouds.'
(Quickly draw some clouds.)
The clever child will ask,
'How do i know it's God on top of the mountain in heaven and it's not the Devil in hell?'
'Hmm...How old did you say you were?'

Back to the drawing board. — Beryl Dov

Hold on to 16 as long as you can, — John Mellencamp

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier