Art Of Fielding Quotes

#1. Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Henry Fielding

#2. Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Henry Fielding

#3. Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Elizabeth Moon

#4. A basso sings, and a soprano answers him.
Then there is thunder in a clear blue sky,
And, from the earth, a sigh: This song is finished.

Kenneth Koch

#5. Smartass Disciple: Master, why God let human did sins in the beginning?
Master of Stupidity: If the saviour must come, why should He prevent that?

Toba Beta

#6. This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.

Lysa TerKeurst

#7. Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

Chad Harbach

#8. When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

Noel Fielding

#9. Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior.

Henry Cloud

#10. Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Amy Bloom

#11. A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Henry Fielding

#12. Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

Henry Fielding

#13. National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.

Charles Lindbergh

#14. When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

Donald Bren