Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
Quotes to Explore
-
Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
-
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
-
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
-
I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
-
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
-
I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
-
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
-
You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
-
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
-
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
-
When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
-
I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
-
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
-
I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
-
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
-
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
-
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
-
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
-
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.
-
I'm not into the attention thing so much.
-
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
-
I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
-
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
