John Constable Quotes
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? 'Tempest o'er tempest roll'd' - still the 'darkness' is majestic.John Constable
Quotes to Explore
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes -
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
Natasha Calis -
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
Sam Crawford -
I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
Salma Hayek
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
Ingrid Betancourt -
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick -
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Nancy Friday -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Tabitha Soren -
I don't do office work at home.
A. K. Antony
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino -
I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
Mamie Van Doren -
I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
Vanity -
At least I can say that I'm honest.
Adam Lambert -
'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
Patrick deWitt -
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Sally Mann
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
Nelson Mandela -
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because I'm a fighter. I didn't survive my life to ask permission to write my books.
C.E. Morgan -
Females choose; their choosiness is inherited; they prefer exaggerated ornaments; exaggerated ornaments are a burden to males.
Matt Ridley -
My weakness is chocolate - especially butterscotch and nut varieties.
Lesley Lawson -
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? 'Tempest o'er tempest roll'd' - still the 'darkness' is majestic.
John Constable