Top 14 Anne Taintor Christmas Quotes
#1. The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
Emile Zola
#2. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Jonathan Swift
#3. I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.
Helaine Posner
#4. A work of tragedy would rise to its true moral and edifying possibilities when the audience looked upon the hero's ghastly errors and crimes and was left with no option but to reach the terrifying conclusion: 'How easily I, too, might have done the same.
Alain De Botton
#5. It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.
E. M. Forster
#6. Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.
Barbara Holland
#7. Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.
Tyrone Guthrie
#8. No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don't benefit from their crumb.
Sue Gardner
#10. One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#11. Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
Mark Twain
#12. A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.
John Noble
#13. By the way, I've decided there's no such thing as a simple life. It's futile to even pursue one.
Elizabeth Brundage
