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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Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heartFrom its present pathway part not!Being everything which now thou art,Be nothing which thou art not.So with the world thy gentle ways,Thy grace, thy more than beauty,Shall be an endless theme of praise,And love - a simple duty.
Edgar Allan Poe -
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
Christopher Moore -
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
Dennis Quaid -
Prince Bismarck once said that one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork; another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.
John F. Kennedy -
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