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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
-
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.
-
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
-
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.
-
If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
-
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.'
-
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
-
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for 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.
-
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.
-
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
-
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.
-
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
-
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and 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.
-
If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.
-
My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too
-
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
-
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to have my ass handed to be in order to get it into gear for the upcoming Sydney Olmpics. Now, I'm on a mission.
-
Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
-
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.
