Use Quotes - Page 182

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

A creator always needs excuses.

I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.