Alexander Whyte Quotes

You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

Alexander Whyte

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• Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Always
  • Fool

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Dark

• True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Dreams

• When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

  

  Alice James
  • Women
  • Children
  • Truth

• I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

  

  Lily King
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Progressive
  • Opposed
  • Pension Reform

• The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Man
  • Eye

• I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Profanity

• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Control
  • Emotions
  • Passions

• Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Had

• But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Giving
  • Guitar
  • Volume

• The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Ass
  • Load
  • Overload

• Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Interest

• At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.

  

  David Lanz
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Simple

• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Life
  • Children
  • Nature

• A life to live is not a field to cross; yet, somehow, in her chaotic way, Varya was able to keep the house going.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • House
  • Cross
  • Chaotic Way

• You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

  

  Alexander Whyte
  • Cross
  • Practicing
  • Err