Their Works Quotes
51 quotes by 48 authors
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only…
— George Santayana
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People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their…
— Meister Eckhart
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We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man…
— John F. Kennedy
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The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not…
— Sergei Rachmaninoff
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I…
— Laura Ingraham
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your…
— Seneca the Younger
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Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
— Antonio Gaudi
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Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still…
— Hilary Rosen
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Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically…
— Francis Atterbury
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Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the millions of readers…
— John Jackson Miller
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Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When…
— Thomas Kinkade
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MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.
— William Shakespeare
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The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow…
— Matthew Henry
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Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors,…
— Ken MacLeod
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often…
— Ann Beattie
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