Leo Tolstoy Quotes
And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
Leo Tolstoy
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Jack Levine
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn
If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland
My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
Odette Annable
Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
Zac Efron
There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
Patrick M. Byrne
I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
Ed Weeks
We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
Jacob deGrom
I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
Patrick Ness
When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
Samantha Barks
I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
Adam Carolla
If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
Rita Ora
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
C. J. Cherryh
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
Antoni Tapies
My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.
John Constable
A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.'
Eric Berne
And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
Leo Tolstoy
