There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess,… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I think it's better to be too early and disturb a few people - but have other people say it was necessary… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces. — Helen Lowrie Marshall Copy Share Image
Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery.… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
