Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Romantic

• Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Good
  • Men
  • Changes

• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Forget
  • Legal

• I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Myself
  • New
  • Breakfast

• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Country
  • Need

• My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Time
  • Live
  • Man

• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Law
  • Intelligence

• I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Homosexual
  • Chastity
  • Vows

• I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Healthy
  • Youth
  • Debate

• Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination - for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Truth
  • Faith

• Service of the people by sciences and arts will only exist when men live with the people and as the people live, and without presenting any claims will offer their scientific and artistic services, which the people will be free to accept or decline as they please.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Friend
  • Trouble
  • Nation

• You see how things might be and you aren’t afraid to risk something to have it.

  

  Joseph Monninger
  • Risk
  • Afraid
  • Might Be

• It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mean
  • Risk
  • Easy