Aritst Quotes

#1. To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives ...

Jan Phillips

#2. We could never have guessed
We were already blessed
where we are ...

James Taylor

#3. Everywhere you look Britain, the States, western Europe people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.

J.G. Ballard

#4. Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Salma Hayek

#5. Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Barbara Hambly

#6. Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#7. I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Madeleine Albright

#8. O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Thomas Carlyle

#9. He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.

Elizabeth Strout

#10. I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

Alan Ball

#11. I'd always thought death would be some sort of peaceful homecoming - a sweet, sad lullaby to usher me into whatever waited afterward.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory.

George William Norris