Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Never

• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Favourite

• If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Pretty
  • Story
  • Look

• Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Book
  • Place

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Myself
  • See
  • Someone

• The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Perfect
  • Most
  • Which

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • American
  • Reality
  • Same

• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Know
  • Fascinating

• 'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Clever

• I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.

  

  John Mayer
  • People
  • Comedy

• Why have your eyes gone into their own room?

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Why
  • Eyes

• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Bird

• For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Work

• I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Imagination

• I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end, we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

  

  Kayla Ewell
  • Good
  • Work
  • Friends

• I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • Money
  • America
  • Party

• But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Understand

• I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Leaving

• Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Distance
  • Paint
  • Close Up