Fineries Quotes

#1. But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#3. The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the other nations. England seems determined to see the entire world bored just as she is, and just as bored as she.

Honore De Balzac

#4. By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding, all are spared the bother of rational insight and knowledge.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#5. The first Star Wars movie was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were concieved of as six films of which the first film was number four.

George Lucas

#6. Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.

Thom Yorke

#7. Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, get down and pray for power.

Smith Wigglesworth

#8. When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

Criss Jami

#9. At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.

Will Oldham

#10. You don't know someone until you've seen their darkness.

C.M. Rayne

#11. The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

William Wordsworth

#12. The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot