Auguste Renoir Quotes
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
Auguste Renoir
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
Lakhdar Brahimi
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
Gary Wolf
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers
And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
Rachel Dratch
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness
When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
Beck
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra
