Art Quotes - Page 118

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.

Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind and tossing billow If only we are in the boat with Thee? Hold us quiet through the age-long minute While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill : Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it; Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.