Michelangelo Quotes

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

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• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Mom
  • Bike
  • Never Forget

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Truth
  • American
  • Best

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Years

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Magazine

• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Say

• In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Mind
  • Psychology
  • Map

• I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Ideas
  • U.S.

• I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Small
  • Understanding
  • Emotional

• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Republican
  • Tyranny
  • Despotism

• I'm confident a good Liam Smith beats a good John Thompson.

  

  Liam Smith
  • Good

• I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

  

  John Travolta
  • Done
  • Classic
  • Little Things

• Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

  

  Michelangelo
  • God
  • Gift
  • Glory