Contemptus Mundi Quotes

#1. I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality ... to protect myself.

Alberto Giacometti

#2. There was nothing she would ever change about him , except for who he thought she was.

R.J. Groves

#3. We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.

Debbie Macomber

#4. My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Taylor Hackford

#6. How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

William Morris Hunt

#7. A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

Win Butler

#8. But don't try to appeal to my humanity now," I rasped, my voice low and cold, unfamiliar, "not when you forced me to admit that I'm a monster. Not when you tried to take away the only good thing I'll ever know. If he had died, I would've shown you a real monster.

Julie Kagawa

#9. A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service.

Plutarch

#10. The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

William James

#11. You shouldn't believe anything you hear standing outside a plywood window. Everyone knows plywood distorts vowels...words...sayings." -Ariel

Fern Michaels

#12. You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

Paul Guilfoyle