Galileo Galilei Quotes
To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
Galileo Galilei
Quotes to Explore
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Fluency is smooth, rapid, effortless use of language.
David Crystal
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
Nancy Horan
I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.
Dermot Mulroney
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
Derek Walcott
To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
Galileo Galilei
