Godowsky Kunstlerleben Quotes

#1. In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Lionel Trilling

#2. It is easier to lose a thousand disciples than to win over one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

Lemony Snicket

#4. I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.

Sherri Shepherd

#5. What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

Om Puri

#7. Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

Roderick Nash

#8. None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.

Lewis Black

#9. The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

James S.A. Corey

#10. I have ... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.

Colin McEnroe

#11. People should tell your children what life is all about
it's about work ...

Lauren Bacall