Arthur Lismer Quotes

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

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• I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Daily

• More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • World
  • Career

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Change
  • Ready
  • Be Prepared

• You can get beat any day.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Day
  • Beat

• Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Game
  • Wisdom

• 'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Happy

• My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: 'The people are my God.'

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Respect

• In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mind

• A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Heart
  • Church

• I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

  

  Billy Burke

• If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

  

  Jerrold Nadler
  • Nature

• My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Travel

• We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

  

  Chris DeWolfe
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Night

• None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Control

• Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Purpose
  • Environment
  • Strength

• Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life.

  

  Kevin Daniels
  • Life
  • Done
  • Magic

• Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Magic
  • Wilderness
  • Draw