30694 Quotes

#1. The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

Mason Cooley

#2. I kept seeing turning points. First the uprising. Then the creation of the Free Syrian Army, the FSA. Now a big assassination bombing in the heart of Assad's government. But the turn never came. It just got worse and worse.

Richard Engel

#3. Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.

Daniel Norris

#4. That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

Dana Schutz

#5. And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not exist; the only thing that mattered was the temperament of the artist; the only thing of interest was the way his brain worked, regardless of the subject he was treating.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#6. We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

William Stanley Jevons

#7. I would have so many friends if I help back the truth and just gave out compliments.

Drake

#8. Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

George Sand

#9. Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

Arthur Miller

#10. I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

Daniel Suarez

#11. I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

Amy Lee

#12. The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

John Barth

#13. Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.

Rachel Cohn

#14. Lord Marshmoreton: I wish I could get you see my point of view.
George Bevan: I do see your point of view. But dimly. You see, my own takes up such a lot of the foreground

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

Roger Scruton