Victor Hugo Quotes
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Quotes to Explore
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.
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More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.
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At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
