Hangs Quotes
235 quotes by 208 authors
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What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.
— Jules Olitski
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.
— John Keats
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his…
— John Dewey
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
— E. M. Forster
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
— George Herbert
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A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an…
— Lawrence Lessig
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Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never…
— Archibald MacLeish
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
— Helen Rowland
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I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the…
— Jerry Saltz
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's…
— Tom Stoppard
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Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
— Amy Winehouse
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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
— Howard Zinn
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O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's…
— William Shakespeare
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Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs…
— Daniel Webster
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In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright…
— Hugh Laurie
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The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce…
— Tom Robbins
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People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
— Charles de Lint
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Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find…
— Ludwig von Mises
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He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
— C.S. Lewis
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I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness…
— David O. McKay
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