Paint Quotes
1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors
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The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can…
— David O. McKay
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What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
— Henry Rollins
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke…
— Jennifer Weiner
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We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel,…
— Melissa Marr
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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...
— Claude Monet
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be…
— Jim Butcher
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you give me fever from miles around ill pick you up in my car and well paint the toown
— Michael Jackson
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Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it…
— Richard Siken
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Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
— Vera Nazarian
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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to…
— O. Henry
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There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver…
— Kami Garcia
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record…
— Toni Morrison
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Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be…
— Randy Pausch
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When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
— Salvador Dali
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if…
— Lawrence Durrell
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I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that…
— Stephen King
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Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.
— Rick Steves
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Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort…
— Augusten Burroughs
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If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
— George R. R. Martin
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
— Karl Marx
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It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much…
— Jim Elliot
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When I was a kid, my mom once told me that God was an artist and how on occasion He’d throw a bucketful of paint…
— Kristina McMorris
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