Eric Weiner Quotes
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
Eric Weiner
Quotes to Explore
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. Bradley
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
Salman Khan
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
Rahm Emanuel
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Quintilian
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There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
W. G. Sebald
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Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
W. Brett Wilson
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Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.
Muhammad Ali
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No arts, no letters - no society.
Thomas Hobbes
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Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.
William O. Douglas
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The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
Elliot W. Eisner
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso
