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 started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
Harold Hamm -
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
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If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
T. H. White -
I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
Larry Ellison -
I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.
Lauren Ambrose -
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven
William Shakespeare -
O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return.
Alphonsus Liguori -
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