1412 Kid Quotes

#1. Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#3. It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

William H. Seward

#4. My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

Rita Wilson

#5. You are a legend. Your self-invention matters. You are the artist of your own life.

Lady Gaga

#6. In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats.

David Mitchell

#7. But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Keith Ablow

#8. Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

Ken Venturi

#10. Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Jim Elliot

#11. With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

Muriel Barbery

#12. But he - he hated pity as a cat hates water.

Richard Adams

#13. Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.

A.O. Scott

#14. Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

Cam Newton