Edward Lucie-Smith Quotes
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings – meanings which may in fact contradict each other.
Edward Lucie-Smith
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
'And how are you?', said Winnie-the-Pooh. (...)'Not very how', he said. 'I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.'
A. A. Milne
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think... In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.
Douglas Brinkley
My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'
Bernie Mac
Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.
Christoph Waltz
Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.
Edgar Snow
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.
William Graham Sumner
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
Cass McCombs
'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.
Blake Anderson
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings – meanings which may in fact contradict each other.
Edward Lucie-Smith