For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today.… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty. — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched,… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious.… — Danny Dyer Copy Share Image
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express… — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every… — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Copy Share Image
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice.… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
In their twenties men just want, want, want, want, want.. Dont make everybody deal with your want all the time. It gets… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see,… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
