Whenll Quotes & Sayings

Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles ... We are beggars: this is true. — Martin Luther

Kafka, it seems, is at his best when he fails. — Franz Kafka

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. — Stephen Bayley

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them. — Dawoud Bey

He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together. — J.K. Rowling

You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self. — Kate Millett

Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you. — Dossie Easton

All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing stronger than nature. With nature in front of us we can do everything well. — Joaquin Sorolla

Thinking remembering how his uncle had said that all man had was time, all that stood between him and the death he feared and abhorred was time yet he spent half of it inventing ways of getting the other half past: — William Faulkner

It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there. — Asif Kapadia

As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously ... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music. — Trey Anastasio

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler. — Mohamed ElBaradei