The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all,… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise. — Wilhelm Stekel Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the… — Fabio Novembre Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I love the fact that very often the most everyday objects take on another level of importance. — Nick Veasey Copy Share Image
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game… — Nas Copy Share Image
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun… — David Hume Copy Share Image
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings,… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end,… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
