Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
-
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
-
Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
-
When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
-
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
-
Nature can do more than physicians.
-
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
-
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
-
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
-
Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
-
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
-
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
-
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
-
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
-
To be rude to someone is not my nature.
-
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
-
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
-
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
-
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
-
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
-
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
-
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
-
I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.
-
Sunlight is painting.
