Arouet Foundation Quotes

#1. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Billy Collins

#3. Like the Buddha, we too have come from suchness, remain in suchness, and will return to suchness. We have come from nowhere and have nowhere to go.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. [...] provability is a weaker notion than truth

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#5. What's the worst thing you've ever done?"
He pushed his hands through his hair. "I'm beginning to think it was marrying you.

Tessa Dare

#6. I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

Wendy O. Williams

#7. Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

Samuel Johnson

#8. No one said you can't go outside the lines.

Candy Chang

#9. It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well.

Robin Hobb

#10. Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#11. I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

Emma Watson

#12. Try using your inside voice. Less awkward.

Charlie Cochet

#13. Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Jean Cocteau

#14. We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Paulo Coelho