Character

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Elbert Hubbard

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

In my beginning is my end.
T.S. Eliot

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
William Arthur Ward

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

Writing is thinking on paper.
William Zinsser

I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
George Jean Nathan

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
William Arthur Ward

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
William Arthur Ward

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.
William Arthur Ward

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it’s pretty certain that she has his.
George Dennison Prentice

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorthea Brande

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.
Robert Heller

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
Mortimer Adler

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
William Arthur Ward

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer

The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love.
George E. Woodberry

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
William Arthur Ward

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No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schubert

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland

Music is an outburst of the soul.
Frederick Delius

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach

I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
Virgil Thomson

Music is the silence between the notes.
Claude Debussy

Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.
Thelonious Monk

Life is a lot like jazz.. it’s best when you improvise.
George Gershwin

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein

When in doubt, sing loud.
Robert Merrill

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky

Modern music is as dangerous as cocaine.
Pietro Mascagni

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
Louis-Hector Berlioz

When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
Florent Schmitt

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Ned Rorem

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Musicians own music because music owns them.
Virgil Thomson

Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.
Thelonious Monk

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
Robert A. Schumann

It’s not what your are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.
Oscar Levant

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
George Norman Douglas

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’
Aaron Copland

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Louis-Hector Berlioz

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.
Camille Saint-Saens

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti

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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Charles F. Kettering

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin

The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone.
Javan

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles F. Kettering

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin

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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Marianne Williamson

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
Sidonie Gabrielle

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
Ben Hecht

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I won’t quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
Jack Lemon

Talking about producer Nellee Hooper: ‘He’s not one for mediocre experiences.
Bjork

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
Katharine Lyall Whitehorn

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas Carlyle

Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
Ambrose Bierce

On working with her producer boyfriend: Working together was a bit of a disaster. I’d tell him his ideas were cr*p and he’d say the same about mine.
Daisy Donovan

Both Roddy and I were smokers. The producer, Arthur Jacobs, had long-stemmed cigarette holders made for everyone so we could smoke with the make-up on.
Kim Hunter

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.
Fred Allen

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
Bill Moyers

Innovation comes from the producer — not from the customer.
W. Edwards Deming

Arne Harris, producer-director for WGN-TV… is in his 34th year on the job, meaning he is closing in on Jack Brickhouse’s record: Most Chicago baseball losses watched, one man, lifetime.
Bob Verdi

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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Jacques Cousteau

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Thomas Walker

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
David Livingstone

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Davy Crockett

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
Jacques Cousteau

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
Davy Crockett

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
Jacques Cousteau

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Robert Falcon Scott

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
David Livingstone

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Jacques Cousteau

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
Ferdinand Magellan

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
Daniel Boone

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Freya Stark

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
Edmund Hillary

I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.
David Livingstone

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.
Davy Crockett

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
Freya Stark

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Davy Crockett

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.
Edmund Hillary

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
Jacques Cousteau

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
David Livingstone

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!
David Livingstone

Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead.
Davy Crockett

Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Jacques Cousteau

The most ominous of fallacies – the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
Freya Stark

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
Jacques Cousteau

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
Jacques Cousteau

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Cousteau

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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation … even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci

The secret of art is love.
Antoine Bourdelle

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci

I have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ’tis for some other.
Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leonardo da Vinci

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci

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Photography is truth.
Jean-Luc Godard

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Ernst Haas

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
W. Eugene Smith

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
Frank Deford

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorthea Lange

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
Lewis Carroll

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker Evans

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Duane Michals

To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt

Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.
Helmut Newton

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Paul Strand

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it. It becomes layered with the past and the present. It need not be of people you.
Similar

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
Paul Strand

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.”
John Loengard

I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice.
Minor White

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
Dorothea Lange

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.
Arthur Fellig

It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.
James Lalropui Keivom

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Harry Callahan

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun.
Similar

Some photographers take reality…and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
Duane Michals

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Aaron Siskind

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

The camera can photograph thought.
Dirk Bogarde

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Edward Weston

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
Cornell Capa

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
Annie Leibovitz

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott

The camera can photograph thought. It’s better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
Dirk Bogarde

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.
Sam Abell

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The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
Alexandra Stoddard

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent

Dressing is a way of life.
Yves Saint Laurent

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque

That is the best – to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them.
William Morris

It’s the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept, … It’s not about age. It’s about taste, and it’s about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Ralph Lauren

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.
William Morris

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Marc Chagall

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.
Edward Gorey

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.
Edith Head

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong – to belong to my mother. And in return – I wanted my mother to belong to me.
Gloria Vanderbilt

Give me love and work – these two only.
William Morris

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.
William Morris

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Georges Braque

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
Yves Saint Laurent

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.
Donna Karan

Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint Laurent

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
Yves Saint Laurent

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is – but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
Edward Gorey

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Edward Gordon Craig

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Lauren

Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

Delete the negative;Accentuate the positive!
Donna Karan

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
Sir Alec Issigonis

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
Edith Head

When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity.
Alexandra Stoddard

I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.
Lilly Dache

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

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When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Jim Rohn

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Nicholas Sparks

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
John Maxwell

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill

When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”
Sydney J. Harris

Yes, it’s hard to write, but it’s harder not to.
Carl Van Doren

Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Bill Watterson

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin

Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. hat the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
Brian Koslow

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
Wayne Dyer

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
Gary Zukav

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John Maxwell

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George Sheehan

Capability means imagination…
Napoleon Hill

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

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We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

A year, ten years from now, I’ll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.
Adrienne Rich

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams

The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
Charles Seymour

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. Hayakawa

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter F. Drucker

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa

Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
James Walker

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours.’
Vine Deloria, Jr.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
Mortimer Adler

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Patonv

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Ralph Bunche

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller

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After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can’t talk! She can’t act! She’s sensational!”
Ava Gardner

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
Jelly Roll Morton

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.
Amy Smart

The director is really a watch-dog, and the watch-dog has no right, without the knowledge of his master, to take a sop from a possible wolf.
Timothy Bower

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has unveiled a new color-coded system to warn the public about different states of danger. Red is the highest state of alert, and it means that Dick Cheney is about to eat a mozzarella stick.
Conan O’Brien

Inevitably, a dramatist writes one play, his director interprets another, the actors perform a third and the public sees a fourth and an altogether different one.
John Harvey

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
Jean Renoir

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor’s work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
William Friedkin

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
Sun Tzu

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him.
Soren Kierkegaard

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
Robert Doisneau

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
Ben Hecht

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don’t have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
Dick Powell

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
Cole Porter

In England, I’m a horror movie director. In Germany, I’m a filmmaker. In the US, I’m a bum.
John Carpenter

You are only actors on the stage before the footlights. The Director, who knows the Play, who assigns the roles, who gives the cues, who calls you in and puts you on is behind the curtain.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

It’s very funny, and we really laughed a lot while we were making it and I could always tell how happy the director was by how hard he laughed behind the monitor.
Liv Tyler

If he hires you, he hires you because he feels like you know what to do. And he’s very, very largely out of the way. He directs the picture, you do the acting. I love that, and I think that most of the people that he works with love that.”
Morgan Freeman

I can not live with out books.
Thomas Jefferson

First of all I work out, second of all the Director of Photography on our film is amazing and I told him if any cellulite shows I will kill him!
Denise Richards

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.
Thomas Fleming

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
Orson Welles

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock

Arne Harris, producer-director for WGN-TV… is in his 34th year on the job, meaning he is closing in on Jack Brickhouse’s record: Most Chicago baseball losses watched, one man, lifetime.
Bob Verdi

Half my directors have no idea about my family situation. [Stealign Beauty director] Bernardo [Bertolucci] had no idea who Aerosmith was. People always want to take away from the work that you did, like they want to think it was easy, somehow. I got those parts because I worked hard to get them.
Liv Tyler

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock

Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met’s director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased.
Robert Hughes

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder

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