Half Quote by Horace Download Open image “He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Half Long Painting
“I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away” — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I watched him playing with the long blades of grass, weaving them into patterns as he hummed an unfamiliar song, a waltz. "What are… — Delilah S. Dawson Copy Share Image
“A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
“When he worked on this painting, he felt sometimes as if he were flying, as if the world of galleries and parties and other… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“His fingers are too long and when he talks he uses them to point out moments in his sentences. When he does, as the… — craig stone Copy Share Image
“Men who want nothing more than to show you their big huge-" She made a noise of half laughter, half disgust and shoved him… — Jeanette Grey Copy Share Image
“I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he's going to Spain for the fall semester and he… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind. — James I. Robertson, Jr Copy Share Image
“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Vincent did not know how to express his feelings in words. He knew how to paint them. However, one cannot paint the farewell.” — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my… — Kelly Link Copy Share
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image