Framed Picture Sayings

#1. Above the TV was a framed picture of Jesus bringing a boy and girl a puppy. I was in no way surprised. In flyover country, they have a way of getting Christ and Santa all mixed up.

Stephen King

#2. I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Johnny Weissmuller

#3. The wise man is glad to be instructed, but a self-sufficient fool falls flat on his face.

Anonymous

#4. If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#5. When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

Bernard Tschumi

#6. Then he put that one down behind a framed sepia-tone picture of a baseball player named Cecil Travis and picked up another one and tilted it back to his lips.

Tom Wolfe

#7. I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

David Sedaris

#8. The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

Wilt Chamberlain

#9. May Lord revive and restore you to good health.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.

Kimberly Novosel

#11. Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.

Henry James

#12. I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

Nancy Wake

#13. Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Orrin Woodward

#14. The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.

Robert Thurman

#15. Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Hermann Hesse

#16. Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Vanna Bonta

#17. Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Hope Mirrlees

#18. I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

Blake Bailey

#19. Nothing is ever lost, nor broken in vain.
It is the tapestry of life, a picture that has been framed.

Natalie Ducey

#20. Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?"
"Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?"
"You're not going to go mad," she said firmly.
"Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.

David Eddings

#21. Life is a learned behavior. We should learn it well.

Las Lugosi

#22. As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

Rob Bell

#23. Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

Abraham Lincoln