Art Existence Practicality Quotes

#1. Whatever comes easily to us we turn away from, but that which slips away from us we will pursue to the ends of the earth.

Dee Brown

#2. Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#3. It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

Christopher Lasch

#4. Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

Baruch Spinoza

#5. Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Jim Carrey

#6. I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.

Kerri Walsh

#7. In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Arundhati Roy

#9. A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

Robert Doisneau

#10. Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.

James O'Barr