Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
-
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
-
Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
-
Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
-
It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
-
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
-
The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.
-
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
-
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
-
Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.
-
We have to be capable of facing such a number.
-
Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
-
Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.
-
Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation - even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.
-
Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.
-
There are always two sides to every story. Make sure you listen to both and seek out the truth because you might become a part of the deceitful’s circus and end up being the fool.
-
It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.
-
No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.
-
Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
-
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.
-
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
