Charles Willson Peale Quotes
What more pleasing prospect can be opened to our view than the boundless field of nature? not only comprehending the inhabitants of earth, sea, and air; but earth, sea and air themselves—presenting an inexhaustible fund for amusing and useful enquiry.
Charles Willson Peale
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley
Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
Natalie Dormer
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
Natalie Imbruglia
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
Damien Chazelle
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Laura Dern
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.
Baron d'Holbach
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
Naomi Klein
The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime Israel, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.
Isaac Asimov
They're gonna be mad at us.They're gonna be mad at me and you.They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.
Ani DiFranco
Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas
I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
Mackenzie Davis
The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive.
Enos Mills
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
Otto Weininger
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
Philip Treacy
What more pleasing prospect can be opened to our view than the boundless field of nature? not only comprehending the inhabitants of earth, sea, and air; but earth, sea and air themselves—presenting an inexhaustible fund for amusing and useful enquiry.
Charles Willson Peale
